[quote=ASTA]
You could just do what I did and make a character without being unintentionally influenced by the power levels of other people's characters. You do this simply by not reading other people's power listings.
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I generally try to do that, but I guess there's an underlying paranoia that there'll be a character I don't stand a chance against or something? So I try to make characters I know won't get flat out crushed, but also won't do flat out crushing either. So it's as fair as possible.