You guys are going to love it. Great writing, great gameplay, tons of skills and interesting monsters. It's what a lot of you (and me) have been waiting for.
One thing about the characters, Don't be scared to experiment with whatever kind of character you want. If you want to turn Chloe (the sorceress) into a hardcore fighter character then you can quite easily. She may not be "blueprinted" for a fighter character, but that doesn't mean she'll be a weak pushover if you give her the right skills and increase her stats. She'll be raining melee destruction in no time if you want her to.
I turned Dirk into a priest/rogue quite easily and while multi-classing him meant that he wasn't the most powerful rogue or priest it also meant he had a lot more options when fighting. He saved my parties butt on a few occasions because he could heal/buff or take out an opponent with a well placed dagger thrust.