Wow!! I'm really flabbergasted by the amount of ideas that tragic produced, and ofcourse I'm also deeply impressed by all the other marvellous ideas, it makes my idea maybe look like it's a little dull. But anyway, I'd like to post it.
When I played <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> I took the house of George in Aleroth to store all the things I picked up, to sell them later so I wouldn't be encumbered all the time but though had the possibility to earn lots of money. I also slept there and kept one of my teleporter stones in this house. (And decorated it with the various plants and pots I found on the way, It was actually a really cosy house <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/stupid.gif" alt="" />) I also had this in the temple of Raan in <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> (but it was not as cosy as in Aleroth, but what could I expect being in Nemisis? And apparently there was some other 'human' living in this house that did noting else dan walking the same circle time after time.)
What I actually like to say is that the idea of a house somewhere, is very useful and can make you feel like you're 'at home' in the game.
Maybe DD2 the character could start from it's own house in Verdistis or something like that?