Not bad
Since this is your first game I can understand some of the mistakes you've made. For one thing, personality and aptitude were totally useless. Even with learning your personality just to get Guy wasn't even worth it and you said aptitude helps you train faster? From what I've played, the cost and level up for the skills are exactly the same even if I had only 1 aptitude. Do not make up stupid shit just to get attention. The same goes for the high level books. If we can't play it in chapter 1, then don't put it in at all because it pisses people off.
One very important thing you forgot to do is to put the information for the defense/power/personality/aptitude "into" the game. It's annoying that I had to go to a website just to find out what each one does. And why did you have to make the running part so retarded? Next time make us hold shift or something. Also remove feedback and make pryoblast cost 5 points instead of 7. Feedback sucked ass and pryo wasn't even worth it because it costed a lot of points as well as a lot of gold to level up.
Now for the good points =] The style/chat/background was good and so was the gameplay. It was fun leveling up for an hour or so until I was godlike with high level mind blast. I admit the tent part was annoying for me and many other people (we're all impatient so don't forget that) but it wasn't as bad as other people mentioned. I'd recommend for the next chapter, gold would only be useful to upgrade your spells, while you should add experience points so you could choose to put them into defense/power etc. Can't wait for chapter 2 and hope to see lots of improvement.
As a last note, don't take complaints to the heart, but learn from it!