On linux steam beta with all extensions, making a new character with skills that will bring no spells at start and then I use the mousewheel, game will crash. bug report on steam github: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/455
Umm. I'm stupid and not awake. What skills do you actually need to pick to ensure you don't have any starting skills?
Same thing happens under Win7 64-bit, as I just posted before I realized it was the same bug. My post contains dumps, however, which might be of use, assuming the bug hasn't actually been fixed in the last 10 days.