Also, I'm going to start the game (hopefully today, if not then tomorrow for sure) with the "Usual Tavern Intro" scene, to give everyone a chance to start getting into it while others finish polishing up their characters.
And, for those wondering, I'm still thinking about the "unique items". They will probably be on par with a level 2-3 magic item, but whatever each of them is will be an effect unavailable through the normal means of the system, which is to say - I'm making it up :) and as such, these things take a bit of time to do well (balance, flavour and all that need to be brought carefully into alignment).