I drew a RPG character. My very first.

[na_th_an]

Quoting myself:

Zack: If you want to use a fixed palette you can use whichever colours you want. It just depends on what you are gonna do. If you are gonna use Rel's translucency effects, you need that gradient palette. It is just up to you to decide.

It depends on what you wanna do. To me, translucency effects in 8 bits look like crap, so that's why I never use them, hence I use small sub-palettes for each sprite or group of sprites when working in 8 bits.