I was looking at my party on the ol' hall of fame and I noticed that I have the lowest level character on the hall of fame at 15. She was level 5 when we beat Murkon. I haven't actually taken the time to total it all up, but I imagine that I have one of the lowest cumulative level parties on the hall of fame also. That's because I retrained everyone twice so that I went from a party of 2 knights, a rogue, a wizard and 2 sorcerers to a party of 6 asassins who know every spell. It took a long time, but I think it was worth it to beat Murkon on my first try. My next game I am starting with a lone wizardess. It's going okay so far, her only major problem comes when she runs into large groups of monsters that are resistant to poison.