I'm still working on Nixak's post story but I do have a few comments about the game.
This was my first time ever having played anything D&D like. I came in not knowing what I was really doing and I think that showed. One place it showed was in the fact that I dumped my levels into Enchanting. Looking back I was not sure how to use the other skills I had in an effective manner so I took the easy path bumped my magic. One propblem I had (and still do) is to see the benefits of putting points into Str, Dex, Int. Seems like those might help in the long run but putting points into say, Enchantment, seemed to have immediate effects.
Armor. I was at a loss of what good armor would be or were to get it. As Triumph already said, I too was expecting the people we fought to drop better gear, but looking back that would just be rather unrealistic. If I stab you with a sword and it goes through your chest, what ever armor you have is now compromised is a good idea that you did but I just wish that I knew the importance of armor before or even as we started.
Battle-grid. I loved it. Doing fights without made it hard for me to visualize how they happened and where people were during the fights. The way that Eph used the battle-grid with the canopy-drake fight was a great way to put a large area into a small grid I thought. Negative note is that font size does matter with how the grid shows up to the players. Maybe we can make some sort of default font to get around this? I hope that the battle-grids are here to stay.
When a roll is needed and when it is not. I never knew if I should be rolling for something or not. I'm trying to talk to this NPC and I have points in Diplomacy, does that mean that I need to roll when I talk to him or not? This problem might be from how green behind the ears I am but I know that I most likely wont be rolling anything unless the GM tells me to from now on.
Things we never see. The fact that Eph told us afterwords that we missed some things was nice for me in trying to figure out what I should be looking for in the game. The fact that the things that we missed were not crucial to the game is even better. I never gave the rook a second thought until Eph said that it was special and never would have if he didn't say anything about it.