I remember playing this game not too long ago. I was an Aasimar Paladin. 

Good luck mate. I have been somewhat interested in NW2, but I didn't love the first one and my time with the second was not great. It still uses the spells per day system, right? That, for me, just does not work in a video game. But maybe it's just Neverwinter Nights, maybe it's a great system in the Baldur's Gate games(I would not know, having not played those).
 
I have also heard that NW2's default campaign, much like the first game's, is really mediocre and it does not get awesome until the expansion. But maybe I'm full of shit. Hope you have fun with it.

Wait, how do you convince lizards that you're a stone god? Did you throw rocks at them? Or did you also convince the developers that this is an Avatar RPG, giving you earthbending powers? I'd pick the former, obviously.

You using any mods? Cus you can make the game slightly less ugly with mods. Also I thought I read somewhere about someone remaking NWN2 in Dragon Age. I might be mistaken. I know someone's remaking Icewind Dale.

I played through this the first time recently, too.  I just finished the main campaign a few weeks ago and I'm now working on Mask of the Betrayer.
 
If you hate generic fantasy stories, you're definitely going to hate this one.  It gets a little more interesting by the end of the second act, but not interesting enough for me to call it compelling.
 
I agree that it is too easy.  I used to play 3.5 D&D with some friends a lot, so I went in on the "Hardcore (full D&D ruleset)" mode, fully expecting to get my ass stomped.  Resting anywhere does indeed make the game too easy, though for some reason in the final dungeon of the game it makes it so that monsters spawn about half the time you try to rest.  That was really the only minorly difficult part of the game for me.  Otherwise, it was just "rest after every few battles, have my mage buff the FUCK out of everyone, steamroll entire armies."  I played as a half-elven arcane archer, BTW.
 
HOWEVER, I would recommend that you stick with it.  Why?  Because a neat sort of mechanic gets introduced at the mid-game that's a nice change of pace and transitions into the endgame pretty well.  Also because if you complete the main campaign, then you can directly import your character into the Mask of the Betrayer expansion (which is a direct sequel to the main storyline).
 
Let me tell you,  Mask of the Betrayer is something else.   I'm only a few hours in, but I can see why people would praise it so highly already.  The story is already seeming leagues more interesting than the main game, and it's kicked my ass quite a few times (though that might change after I get more party members).  The characters you meet seem vastly more interesting than the cookie-cutter stereotypes of the main game, and you can actually see the numerical value of how much influence you have with them! 
 
Unfortunately, the controls aren't fixed.  Fortunately, I've gotten kind of used to them.
 
EDIT: Forgot to mention that resting is fixed in MotB too.  If you try to rest in a dungeon there will be a good chance that monsters will interrupt you in your sleep.

Speech skills are really important in this game which has the effect of greatly favoring Charisma based classes.

It's an inspirational blog. Not because I didn't want to try NWN2 before your early impressions but because I didn't think my 2.66GHz piece of junk could run it. Now I'm considering picking it up the next time a Steam Sale comes along (though its current price tag of fifteen britbux isn't exactly breaking the bank either).
 
Oh right, I can't let a reply to an AW blog go by without recommending you try a painfully mediocre D&D-type game. Menzoberranzan? Ooh, or that Death Gate point-and-click.

I never was too interested in Neverwinter Nights, and as you've noted, their games can be rather broken.

Remembered enjoying the first NWN, but could only get so far into this one due to the story. Can't recall where I stopped with NWN2 though always been impressed with NWN series on character construction & working the game with the D&D ruleset.

The vanila NW2 is kind of tepid imo.
There are some nice moments, like your castle management, some good fights and trial. But that's about it.
Mask of Betrayer is ... awesome. Especially if you are an evil asshole, you REALLY get to swing your dick around. (not sexualy)
 
First Neverwinter had the same issue of main campaign being just OK and the expansion being better.
 
PS: Warlocks are fucking boring.

I've played through about half of NWN1, but got bored of the combat. I made a fighter/tank (as I usually tend to do in RPGs if given the choice), which in retrospect I think was a mistake. I don't know if any other classes would've been more fun to play as, but the fighter has to be the worst.
 
None of the skills available seem to really do anything or be of any use at all so it ended up feeling like a turn-based Diablo with dice rolls. You click on an enemy once and wait for your character to do his swing animations and eventually kill it. Then repeat about a million times. The only strategy involved in the combat was trying to not get surrounded and running to safety for healing every now and then.

You're a braver man than I. After beating NWN1 and its two expansions, I thought I would try NWN2. I installed it, played it for three hours, uninstalled it, sold it on ebay and started drinking to erase my memory of it. I love DnD, and I love DnD in PC games but this thing was just awful.