Curious how you include skills and or powers in CGM. Do you include it in the what if questions?
Yes, that's exactly right. Character questions are included with the "state of the world" questions in principle 4. It's a process of discovery.
I did this because I found character creation acting as a barrier to starting a solo session.
First, I'd spend a lot of time on learning how the system wanted me to do it.
Next, assuming I got that sorted out, I'd run through all the options to create the character. But then there wouldn't be much time left to progress the session.
Or sometimes after creating the character, I'd lose momentum to actually play the game. Character creation and running a game are such completely different activities, and the mood you get in for each are so different. So by integrating character creation into the session itself, I ended up playing more.