This is what I was worried about. It's easier to fudge things I roll if it gets out of hand, but I don't want challenges to just be miss miss miss. Even with a 60/40 it still feels like they would be missing a lot. I've played other BRP games and other non BRP percentile based systems and they feel like they swing wildly.
That was my initial thought upon reading through the lore. It works with the guild and cults as well, getting some basic jobs guarding this or that to get some lunars to pay off part of their starting debt. Also a good way to introduce them to the society. They are more used to a D&D medieval fantasy world and it will probably take a while to adjust to the more bronze age/early iron age cultural feel which attracted me to this game in the first place.
Ha! Definitely newbs all around then. The feel of this game is very different to anything we've played. The closest it comes to is Unknown Armies and that's only the potential deadliness and percentile rolls.