Personally I prefer to tell my own stories. I will do the whole min/max thing first. Once I mastered the expansion I have a plan of telling my own story of a teenage orphan girl abandoned, broke, and struggling just to survive learning of her magical heritage out of desperation. The character will be all mine and I can make the tell as tragic or as happy as I feel at the time. Her traits will be loves outdoors, bookworm, and Romantic. She will love books and long to be a great writer. At first she will be too poor to own a computer, or even a bookshelf (plan on dumping her on the empty lot in Glimmerbrook, placing a tent, a pee bush, the cheapest picnic table, a cheap grill, the outdoor shower, and a trash can and then deleting all her leftover cash.