Hm... no dice. With the mod activated, the game crashes while loading character creation. Here's exactly what I did, step-by-step:
1. Created a new add-on in the Editor named "TEST;" then closed it.
2. Extraced shared.pak to remove the ClassPresets folder w/ 14 .lsx files.
3. Modified each of the 14 .lsx class preset files exactly as I outlined in my previous post.
4. Moved those .lsx class presets to this directory: Data\Projects\TEST\CharacterCreation\ClassPresets
5. Opened the editor again, opened the TEST add-on, published locally.
6. Copied the TEST.pak mod from the local mods folder to the mods folder.
7. Opened up DOS2 and selected the TEST mod, and *only* the TEST mod.
8. Started a new game... only to CTD at the end of the loading screen, while "loading character creation."
I did that about 3 times. For now... I'm going to sleep. Maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow.