First quest ever... "Kill this Night Creature!". My response "... 'Kay." I recruited a peasant to take a couple hits for me, ran after her, found her in a lair scattered with dwarf, human, and dog bones and engaged. I... did not know these things were so tough. I think, as a hammerdwarf, I must have "Fractured" her skull at least 20 times in the fight. By the END of it all her arms, legs, ribs, skull, eyes, brain, etc. were broken by me and my peasant before she finally succumbed to her wounds. Unfortunately by the end both my legs were broken, I had one eye, my left arm was torn apart, and I was bleeding profusely. Peasant had nary a scratch on him despite attacking her head on... and spending the entire fight kicking the Night Creature in the head.
Then I crawled out of the cave and got my head smashed by a sasquatch.
PS: Now to add it's frickin' late and I'm addicted to Adventure mode now that I'm actually doing quite well for a beginner. Taken down 3 Night Beast quests and a bandit camp and have 4 followers and a Peasant meatshield but now I've encountered an issue. With all the loot I've been selling/finding in lairs I now have a lot of copper/silver/gold coins and since I'm a dwarf I can't buy any armor... however I have found a weapon shop that is selling an upgrade to my copper short sword yet the shopkeep refuses to accept my money. I can make an OFFER money as if I'm trying to sell him stuff but for whatever reason it will not let me put forth any in terms of trying to buy it. Quite annoying. Also all the coins refuse to stack, what am I doing wrong there?
PPS: I think I found out. Didn't know every town used it's own special brand of currency. Ugh, what a pain...