Not everyone starts life with equal opportunities. To reflect that, could you assign (say) 400 creation points per PLAYER rather than 100 points per CHARACTER? You might want to set a per character limit (maybe 250). The idea here is that it would allow players to create that extra-special character they would treasure--maybe the rogue who grew up with famous cartographer parents, had played on rooftoops in a Enkidukai village as a child, was born during an eclipse, is an only child, was born in the month of the hunter, etc. The cost would be that after creating one extra special character to love and treasure, the other characters created by that account-holder would be mediocre. They would only have half of their usual creation points and would therefore start at a bit of a disadvantage. Such, after all, is life.
I think the benefit of this system would be that it would allow for more character variation and more personal development. It would have to be balanced carefully, obviously (hence the 250 limit). But I don\'t see any real potential for abuse. After all, most of the starting stuff gets balanced over time by actual game-play anyway.
Another idea: permit special starting items. Family heirlooms etc. Nothing too fancy, but something to make life interesting.
One more: can we have tatoos or, even better, scars? At some point in the future, anyway? This will make unique characters even more unique.
cheers.
