User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25417020-20141019143059/@comment-4867780-20141022052206

Power is like money, it's not everything but without it you're nothing. I like realistic stories where plot-armor is almost nonexistent, and heroes always pull it off not because of narrative cheating but because they really are that good, putting the S in Superheroes.

A character without personality is just a chunk of power, but a character without power is just a glorified red shirt. Better make sure your character has the backbones to handle the future challenges, then built a nice personality around it.

But it's true I'm always seeing it for a Player Character viewpoint faced with an indifferent setting, where optimizing your character is the only way to make sure he'll survive.