Did I get a good deal?

[WarLocke]

Update: I played through the "beginner" level the game suggested, "The Bell, the Book, and the Candle". Surprisingly, I didn't lock up over the course of 1.5 or 2 hours. Yeah, I still suck, I turned the game speed down and still took 23 in-game days to finish the quest.

Early on my heroes died in droves, but once I scraped enough infrastructure and cash together to upgrade my Palace, things looked up. With a Ranger guild, Rogue guild, 4 Gnome Hovels (don't ask me how I got that many, I only built one) and Temples to Aglenta and Duar (? I probably got the names wrong -- they recruited Healers and Monks), I reached a sort of "critical mass" were I had so many heroes, rogues/gnomes (who don't seem to count as "heroes"?) and guards that I just slaughtered everything that attacked my settlement.

Oh, except for the Beholder-type thing. I had to resort to Healing my best Ranger (level 8 at the time) 4 or 5 times while he chipped away at it. No one else would stay on the same screen as it. :ph34r:

I think once I figure out how to get a strong economy/cash inflow going fast, things will be much smoother.