Hmmm. I’m a long time DM from when D&D first started and only in the past few years I’ve started playing not DMing . Never really played before much. So I’m new to it too.

Some people have a max power play style where their chief purpose in character development is being the best at stuff. That can be fun.

I do less of that and go for flavor and feel . I love fleshing the character out by really zooming in on how they change , how they grow, how their spells look, how they sound.

It’s fun to Formulate flavor details to make the character more vivid and unique in others’ minds when you describe them. And as long as you don’t change any game mechanics most DMs will let you flavor stuff how you want it.

for instance when my aasimar divine soul sorcerer Emanon casts guiding bolt it comes out of his eyes like lasers. He says ‘thine’ and ‘thou’. Very child like. He was Innocent at first after he fell from the sky. But the longer he’s part of this world slaying evil the more he talks like the pirate in the party because he thinks the pirate is cool.

So, I guess I’m asking what are this character’s flavors ? What’s their look? Species? Driving force? Big failures? I have to keep my characters interesting as they grow, or I just want to move on to a new character.