We've done this more than a few times now and thoroughly enjoy the quick battles. I think we did quests for killing x monsters and bad ass chamber villains. A funny one was when we took on the dragon and used polymorph to reduce him to a n00b. Obviously we just started and didn't know the bosses aren't categorized as monsters. *oops*
The board game is a super fun alternative to the real deal. People get turned off by pen/paper games thinking they are either too hard or too geeky. Probaby both right but they don't know what they are missing.