RPG Maker 3

I just got this game and I've been playing around with it for about a week. It's fun to make your own RPG, but the coding is not very intuitive. I wanted to start a thread about it for two reasons:

1) Do you have it as well? If you do, what story are you making? I'm making a game called the Crimson Cadre, which is the story of a young girl rescued from the flames of her home and adopted by the conquoring enemy general. When she comes of age, she goes on a quest to subdue three monsters at the request of an ambassador from her original home, not knowing that there are sinister plans for her afoot.

2) Any coding tips? I found by accident that to have a character intially equip a weapon/armor it has to a) match his or her character class, b) it has to be set to be equippable by that character, and c) put in the character's inventory all before you try to set it as initial equipment.