DungeonQuest 3rd Ed. Playthrough (solo) 

In third edition, you do discard determination tokens whether you use them or not. p.23 "When the encounter is finally resolved (whether by suceeding at the test or giving up the attempt), the hero discards all of his determination tokens." There is a variant on p.25,"Focused Determination" , that lets you keep unused determination tokens.

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Every battle is a boss battle. You're unlikely to encounter more than three monsters pr. playthrough - sometimes none in multiplayer. I downloaded the game on Tabletop Simulator - it came with two sets of Combat Cards (and revised ed.'s Roshambo, if you prefer that, similar to the original). First the ones shown here (4 of each 1-3 value, 2x Magic 4s, 3x Melee 4s, and 4x Ranged 4s). Then 4 cards for every hero and monster, most of which were a family of special abilities (the Archer prevents Counterattacks, the Sorcerer cancels combat types, the Barbarian auto-adds to damage stack, the Golem doesn't add to combat stack, the Druid manipulates card draws, the Skeleton gets +2 to Power under specific conditions, etc.) by various mechanics, some had 3 weaker cards of one type, and a power card of another. And some cards were just Power 5 or Power 6 cards. All of them without counter-attack. And they had one more icon on them, for heroes, it was a number between 1 and 5 (all 0 for Kreutzbeck), and the monsters had a light number and dark number on them in hemispheres. One of the heroes Tatiana had a really lucky run, in spite of getting the Imp, she used her healing rune and had only 1 Wound, and she plowed through a spider web and immediately dropped her Rope and a bracelet, to dart over two Bridges in a row, but then in the last room before the exit, they decided that a Swinging Blade Trap is an Armor test for some reason. She had no Determination, so had to roll a 4 or less, or get herself bisected. But yeah, the Imp would've stolen her 1200 gold treasure anyway. The druid got herself walled-in right next to the Treasure Room, and the elf got stung by a scorpion, fell into a viper pit, and triggered a Poison Gas trap, so he died to my poison house rule, where I make a die green, then use it as timer; every time it goes below 1, hero loses a Lifepoint, rolls d6 for a 6 to end the poison. And with three sources of poison, the timer drops by 3 every turn / poison tick every 1.5 turns.