I saw this on the "other" board and wanted to comment. I don't like empowering without a role in general, and that includes a 1-2 sentence role that doesn't say much. I do understand the idea of saying I'm going to start this character like an empty canvas and build it up and write the role as I go, and I can appreciate that, but if you want to do it don't be afraid to put in a role chapter that spells that out for me. You can say I decided to be a paladin and I'm going to base a lot of this character off of what happens in the first empowerment. I'm down with that. But just saying I'm a guy with a sword and I like to fight sort of puts me off. Mainly because at first glance it just reads like laziness, and further because it does take a chunk of time and energy to do empowerments I'm less excited about doing them if the character feels throw-away. If you've put time and energy into writing a serious role it tells me you have true intentions of playing the character. If you slap together a 2 line role and come to me for empowerment I feel like maybe you just want to test out the new paladins not seriously or the like. I get really frustrated when people delete right after I empower them (though I would really like to know if people did that BECAUSE of the empowerment. Let me know so I can make it better).

So! A small rant, but I wanted to lay that out there. Ask questions if you want.