Support for longer in-game Bios

[Kirin]

Is there a way to raise the character limit on the in-game bio editor? NWN2 can actually support much longer bios than the field is allowing.

[[DM] Grinning Death]

You're talking about the field that shows up when someone clicks 'examine'? Because that's not meant to be a field for a biography.

[Doubtful]

What GD says.

It's nothing more than a description field really - Best keep it to clear, concise descriptions of what people see when they look at you.

[Root]

I kinda wish it could be a bit longer for more in-depth detail, but I wouldn't want it more than double its current length. When you have characters with quite a lot of visible features that can't be shown in the games engine, you really have to compress it down to the point where it's nearly a bulletpointed list.

NWN1 had enough space for three decent-ish paragraphs to fit on one page, which seemed a perfect amount for me.

Any hint of a biography in an examine makes me close it, though.

[Kirin]

What GD says.

It's nothing more than a description field really - Best keep it to clear, concise descriptions of what people see when they look at you.

Oh, I know, and have always used it as a description. It's just referred to as the "Bio" in the sundren tool, which is why I called it that.

Still running afoul of the character limit, but it's only a minor gripe. Did not know how easy this would be to change.

[FoogooFish]

A few extra characters would be nice; even I have run out of room, and I am just writing what can physically be seen when someone looks at Emiliana. I do not want to read about a character's backstory when I 'examine,' though. Blah.

[Thief Of Navarre]

I prefer just to have a funny one-liner. Most aspects of your character are in the eye of the beholder ~ what one person considers attractive features might be considered vile to the next person.
Black hair, green eyes, black pointy hat and a crooked nose normally surfices for a description

[Kirin]

A few extra characters would be nice; even I have run out of room, and I am just writing what can physically be seen when someone looks at Emiliana. I do not want to read about a character's backstory when I 'examine,' though. Blah.

I don't think there are many people putting OOC information or backstories in their bio/description, or at least not that I have encountered.

As a pure description field, however, it's still a bit too short; especially if you want to include a short list of things like height/weight/build/etc (not my personal style to do it like that, but I don't take issue with other people doing it since it's still purely visual information you'd get in-character just by examining a person).

[ManUtd4Ever]

Any hint of a biography in an examine makes me close it.

Agree. I rely on this feature to provide me just the essential pieces of information I would otherwise gleem by "viewing" the person.

[Thief Of Navarre]

Agree. I rely on this feature to provide me just the essential pieces of information I would otherwise gleem by "viewing" the person.

A circumstance spot/search check would surfice for gleening information