Played Quest 1 with the tax deductions last night. A lot of fun.
The party immediately split, with the dwarf and the wizard going one way, while the barbarian and the elf went the other.
The elf died first, having used all her spells and getting tag-teamed by a pair of orcs when the barbarian was too far away to help.
The five-year old was the barbarian and—spoilers—took out the Gargoyle. The wizard gets a hat-tip, even though he spent most of the game running away; he cast the spell “tempest”, which caused the gargoyle to lose its turn, preventing it from attacking the barbarian.
The gargoyle having died, the remaining characters only needed to make it back to the stairs to win the quest. Zargon’s hands are tied if the characters don’t open doors, because the monsters don’t open doors. As it so happened, the dwarf, on his way back to the stairs, decided to open one more door, and released two dread knights. The dwarf heroically blocked the doorway to allow the other characters to escape. The dwarf died.
Ironically, the dwarf and the elf were the only characters to actually find treasure, but the monsters recovered said treasure.