Corwin, or Merlin?
My players in the current campaign (set around the time of the second series) have noticed that Merlin is pretty Munchkiny.
I had always thought of Corwin as the munchkin, the kickass guy who actually beat benedict in a fight once, outwitted Eric and the Redheads, was Oberon's favourite, and ended up attuning to the Jewel of Judgment and creating his own multiverse. Oh, and he had Greyswandir, a 16pt damage sword!
Merlin, on the other hand, only seemed to me to get really powerful toward the end of the second series, and on my readings of the second series he always seemed much less capable than Corwin.
But when you think about it, in game terms, Merlin (even at the START of the second series) is a character with every power under the sun: Pattern, ShapeShift, Logrus, Sorcery, Trumps. Because of his dual heritage he knows way more about the larger multiverse than the average PC, and he's created Ghostwheel, a super-powerful artifact capable of unlimited Trump power.
My players are impressed. They're only not annoyed by him because he's basically been on their side (thus far, at least).
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