In fact my ragers were from a time when I totally sucked. But my last three characters were leaders (even if the first two had the position for a limited amount of time), and I did induction interviews for MARAN when it first went in. For MARAN back in the day, the interviews were gruelingly long and thats not really a lot of fun, it was more just to keep numbers down and see who really would stick it out and knew their ####.

Lately, with the mortal leaders, I can't help but let me the player influence my "style" if you will. Unless the guy I'm interviewing doesn't seem to have a clue about what is going on (or unless I'm intrigued by the character and just want to learn more about the innerworkings) my interviews are short. Anyone can look up helpfiles, get answers to questions from friends over IM's, etc. I'd rather see if they have a general idea of the cabal, induct them and see how they do. If they don't pan out, boot them and they can come back and try again. You really never know how someone is going to do in a cabal until they are in.

To pitch in on your thread, the one thing that has kept me away from ragers since I've come back is hearing about how much of the interview was about village history, and I as a player don't really care to "study" for that nor do I think the sort of "barbarian" I'd like to play would give two ####s either.