Adventure! Riches! Death and Madness! (ET Plays Darkest Dungeon)

tbh, going in with nothing is a solid strategy for the early game. Just go in, get as much loot as you can while everyone goes mad, then run back out with your ill gotten gains. Once you're out, you can fire the survivors rather than pay to have them healed. After you have a bit of gold and a few of the objects that you need to upgrade your party, you can start equipping adventurers and so on and actually try to keep them hearty and hale.