Can you make a decent looking character without mods?

Depends on what you call decent.
Made these fellas on PC with no mods (unless some of them escaped the reinstall, then I need to get out the flamethrower). I think they look decent, but your opinion might vary. (I don't mind )

I made these on the PS3. Unfortunately, I don't have access to better pictures.
Male 
Female 

Don't know if this is what you were looking for, but they're here.

What I like to do is start with the preset closest to what I want and remove beard and stubble. I'll either make them bald or at least make sure the style is pulled back so I can see the entire face clearly as well as the ears.  Then I decide on complexion and coloring, change eyes, nose, etc. Tattoos, if any, and the final touch: hair and beard styles. 

For women, if I want makeup, then before I choose hair style I put my makeup intensity sliders to the highest level to really see the colors. Once I decide on the colors I dial the blush back to about 1/3, eye shadow and lipstick between 1/2 and 2/3 intensity. Sometimes I'll dial it back a little more. For my taste, any higher intensity looks garish in game even if it looks okay in the cc.

My toons are ugly no matter what, but for me, the big difference is not whether there are mods vs no mods... it's whether I used the toolset or not! I find the in-game chargen is very difficult to wrangle, whereas the toolset morph sliders are very precise, and the additional options really help a lot.

So in my case, a toolset morph that uses no mods at all will always be better than a Character Creator morph that uses a pile of mods.

Just choose the last preset which will give you a bald but perfectly shaped head and add the features you want

Please do! I love seeing what people are able to accomplish with character design.

Well, here are all my male characters I played different Intros with: Bregan Brosca, James Cosuland, Zaryon (City) and Kivan (Dalish). No mods,and all handsome enough to my eyes. I do like my elves to look non-human, so mileage may vary a lot. Uhm, okay, don't point and laugh!!!

I guess photobucket has a limit to linking pics

Okay, I am trying the other site, photobucket is done being free If it doesn't work, I'll sort something out tomorrow....

I made this two male characters without mods, i think they look decent but i don`t know if this is what you were looking for:

It's easy to make a good-looking male dwarf. Just slap a massive beard on him and you're good to go.

Do you have sliders for your Human Male? Been trying to make a good one for a while now.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.