So I finally go NWN's to work. But when I wanted to create my character there was nothing there. Once I began the game my character was just a shadow and the npc's were also shadows. Is this normal? Anybody know about this?

Has come up a few times, had the same problem myself on my old laptop.

Have a read here:

http://www.gog.com/forum/neverwinter_nights_series/help_im_invisible

:)