The funny thing about how character creation works in EP is that , not matter which chargen system you use (USE TRANSHUMAN'S SIMPLIFIED SYSTEM for your own comfort), you are actually [i]forced[/i] to create a rounded character. A good half of your skill points will be allocated to Knowledge skills, which are flavor text and sometimes a bonus on other rolls. These are open ended "field skills" that you get to name for yourself, so even two pre-gen characters with the fields skills initially left blank will be radically different people. Even the Motivations are a role-playing hook. You have Moxie points you can use to willpower through a bad roll and succeed- if you follow the Motivations you chose and act in-character, you get Moxie back. Don't use it to be disruptive, use it to be cool. And the final lynchpin for not min-maxing is the transhuman nature of your character. If your character travels often, you don't take your equipment with you. You don't even take your [i]body[/i] with you. Your "race" is meaningless, your armor and weapons and portable ramen dispenser are meaningless, and you can bet your currency won't be worth the same everywhere you go. An EP character is powerful because of what they know, not what they can do at the moment. That being said, I openly encourage you to try the game out. And use Transhuman's focused, not perplexing character generation that actually explains itself sufficiently.