I recently picked this up and have been reading it a lot, and have made several characters. I'm preparing to go through character creation with my group this coming weekend, and was wandering if there are any little surprises for me? I mean for either character creation or actual game-play, is there any one bit that consistently causes trouble that I should be aware of?

I ran my first game not too long ago and the only real issue I had was rerolling initiative for each npc. It really slowed down combat rolling and tracking. Now a suggestion I was given from hellgeist was to use his combat tracker here . Now in order to avoid going through tons of paper or needing a laptop handy I printed one page out and then placed it in this with a card board backing, you can pick one up at wal-mart for like 4 bucks and use a dry erase marker on it works great.