I think the decision of going with painted portraits was a bad one. I'd rather have them remove it and display only the name than forcing one to follow a specific look, simply because there is not the right picture for your desired appearance.
The whole character-creation-editor-thing is weird and lackluster.
nah i dont agree with u, what they could do to avoid doing all avatars is that they simply take a pic of your face in character creation window and replace it with avatar pic - similar to NWN2
