Sorry for the lengthy silence. I am a bit busy the next days and can't login as often as I wish to, so please don't be anxious and bear with me. I promise to login as often as I can manage, okay?
First off: We have two more players! These are Jim (from Florida) and Mark (from the UK, also known as SoundouttheGalleon for those of you who also frequent DF). I'll post them the link to the board right after this.
As to the edition: Let's play 1E, okay? It's the system I'm most familiar with and it's also more appropriate for our game than 2E.
As to the characters: I think we should wait with this until Jim and Mark have joined us. Basically I don't mind which character types you want to play, but we should have an eye towards alignment. I'm saying this because tarlyn has already expressed interest in playing an assassin, which is fine by me but which makes rangers and paladins impossible. Also, the type of adventure that we're about to play might influence character class decisions but, as I said, I'd like to wait with telling you more until we're complete.