It's working now. Didn't really do anything special, just closed the app and tried again. Sorry for the post, but I swear it was crashing every single time I tried to start before! Not sure if this matters, but I created a new character and I changed the name this time and it worked. I did have old save game data from a previous version, not sure if that was causing the issue or not.
Looking forward to enjoying the new version of the game!