Eek, monsters that can one-shot characters as initial encounters sounds like a real balance problem. There's a way to ensure the owner can never get people to play it again. Definitely sounds like a case for increasing player hit-points by at least four or five.

Not quite sure whether fixing that would also fix the apparently fundamental flaw in the time split between the adventure and the admin parts of the game. Adventure turn, back to base turn to do admin is only supportable if you can whizz through the second one, or if you can stack several adventuring turns before needing a return to port turn.