I shouldn't have that as my whole answer, and I'll expand on what you said a bit so no one is in the dark as far as my plan. Right now I want people to get used to roleplaying their characters and gain a deeper understanding of the ways their powers can be used in combat situations. This means their character will learn new ways to use their power as the roleplay continues (this also happens in the story, and it's a great way to parallel two different kinds of character development). People who haven't read the book need to learn this fairly quickly, and I was hoping to guide people towards that through keeping the beginning pretty much a "Do whatever you want, almost no consequence" type environment.

Also of course your opinion matters!