Castle Ravenloft--Adventure # 2, "Find the Icon of Ravenloft"

The Wife and I had a lot more luck on this scenario, and got through it on our first try with a Healing Surge to spare. The goal of this mission is for the heroes to find the chapel in the depths of Castle Ravenloft and retrieve a lost artifact, the Icon of Ravenloft, in the hopes that a cleric in Barovia can use it to defend the town. In practice, this means that the heroes (2-5 of them) have to stay alive until the chapel appears on the 9th to 12th tile. Once there, a monster will appear for every hero, and the heroes win by killing those monsters and grabbing the icon.

We decided to try it with three heroes: the Fighter, Cleric, and Ranger. We lucked out and drew the Scroll of Teleportation as the Cleric's starting treasure, which made a big difference about mid-way through the scenario when we started getting trapped by some monsters. Teleporting to a distant tile gave us so much room we were able to finish the scenario before they caught up to us. I don't have any great advice to offer on this scenario, beyond the obvious: keeping the heroes together so they could support each other with their special abilities and mass damage proved helpful.