My first guy on the new version wiped out a few bandit leaders and then, with a mighty army of three trusty sidekicks, decided to ransack a tomb. That's when I found out about mummies.
Things were going alright until one round of reanimation brought the mummy's freshly dismembered arm back to life, at which point it ripped my guy's foot off and I promptly got curbstomped by the horde of skeletons that the mummy had raised. So my eventual goal is to have another adventurer meet the animated remains of my first one, since the Legends Mode history tells me that he has indeed been raised by hte mummy that killed him.
Unfortunately my current dude is probably not going to be the one who does that. I thought I was doing well when I cleared the catabombs under a city's keep and wound up with maxed-out iron armor (most of it -Well- or +Finely+ crafted) and more gemstones than I knew what to do with... until I tried to do the same thing in another city's catacombs. I got zerg-rushed while crossing a large open room, so far I've passed out three times, and the only reason I'm not dead yet is because I'm so well-armoured they can barely damage me even while I'm KO'd. Unfortunately I'm so messed up by now that I can barely damage them even when I'm conscious, so it's likely to be a long fight.
RAAAHR! MANLY SUCCESS! After half an hour of a goddamn elf's axe bouncing off my armour and me flailing wildly at the air I've finally managed to chop one of the bugger's legs off. Now that he can't stand up either it's a much fairer fight, and it didn't take long to get his other leg off, and both his hands, and drive his skull into his brainpan. After that it doesn't take too much work to drag my ass into the next chamber, where it turns out the only other survivors are an axeman with his guts hanging out (mine) and a pair of vomiting bowmen (not mine). The bowmen must be in pretty bad shape, because I have no problem whaling on them despite the fact that I'm still very much in I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up mode.
Meanwhile it says nothing about whether I've finished this damn quest, so I have to follow the trail of blood, teeth, and the occasiona limb deeper into the catacombs to see if anyone else is still alive...
EDIT: Things aren't looking so good any more. It looks like the trail of gibs on an overlooking gallery were just thrown up there by the manly enthusiasm of the fight and aren't a trail left behind by anyone in particular, and while I was following that dud lead my axeman bled out. Turns out one of my own crossbowmen is still alive, but he seems intent on puking himself to death and I'm happy to leave him to it. It looks like I'm going to have to crawl all the way up to the surface again, find a crutch just in case this whole "not walking" thing turns out to be a permanent condition, round up some more hired help, and try again.