You start out with Drizz’t who isn't all that good but here's a way to change characters. Have Drizz’t die and during the dieing sequence hit start and go to import characters. You can now import one of your more powerful characters. Stroll through the level hacking and slashing with out a worry. If you start to run low on time die again and reload the same save, you start in the place you die with another 15 minutes.