This has also been on my mind lately.
With Neverwinter Nights getting on in age, it is going to be harder and harder to find a good player pool to make the game rich. For one, eventually, most retail game stores will stop carrying NWN altogether, if they haven't already. That will dramatically drop down the amount of potential players to near 0 eventually.
So, making the character creation process easier on both the approver and approvee seems paramount. Looking over the past years and the bios and submissions that met with sufficient approval has steadily gotten more and more stringent. While I support having a stronger RPing base of players that can have the intelligence, for-sight, and just plain maturity required to create a vibrant and interesting character, there are some things that could be made more apparent to incoming players to make the process easier:
-Being rich, noble, or of any sort of importance in the world makes it infinitely harder to get approved, or at all. It makes sense that you can't have the privileges of birth that would come to royalty and the amount of "nobility" running around could muddle a lot of story lines.
-Including childhood, family, and early friend relationships that compliment either (or both) class and alignment seems to be the staple of any fleshing out needed for approvers. This could help out the new-coming player by including on the FAQ a list for each class that links to a page on general things that need to be addressed, such as training for fighters, study for wizards, and etc.
I'm sure I'll have more ideas later about this, but as a rather newcomer myself to this, I realize I haven't put the time and effort into this game that any (and I'm sure) all of the GMs and approvers have. So .... I don't want to sound like I don't appreciate the amount of time that you put into this fabulous world. This game seems like it entirely runs off of donations, which I plan on doing so once I get my next pay check, and I salute all of you guys for your hard work.
So, please don't kill/shun me for saying my 2 cents ....
And thanks for listening
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