I'm a newbie and I actually did pretty well. In fact, after helping people fight all night, then actually trying to loot 800 gold from a dragon's corpse to buy my horse back, and then being attacked by selfish Lord Drithe, I escaped, came back, and with my other newbie friend totally owned him despite his uber pets.

I would have left him alone if he didn't proceed to complain about how my effort wasn't good enough to loot anything since his pets were doing most of the work.

I guess I'm not really a UO newbie but I am very new to this shard and have a new character. The quest was fun but it didn't show me "what's up" besides the fact that I don't need to take crap from selfish little power hungry children who don't like to share.