Hey, buddy, I'll give you a tip for a trip. At the beginning of the game, you can keep running in the early morning to enhance your physical strength. You can skip the night time directly because the physical strength in the early stage is very limited. Running not only increases the upper limit of physical strength but also allows you to obtain gold coins and materials. This is a very good choice. After running for two weeks, you'll basically reach a physical strength of five or six hundred. Then, there won't be so much pressure when you go out for fun. If you feel you can't defeat the characters you encounter while running in the early stage, you can choose to run away. That's how I developed rapidly when my save file was lost. I hope it's helpful to you.
That's what I figured until hobo jumps me at 80 stam beat me. I'm having fun and thnx for the tip. It's the lack of info and lacking description in the current tutorial (except combat and stat description) along with a few other gripes that make the beginning harder (I hate Friday) but that can all be said for dark souls and those are some of my favorite games. Still loving everything else tho.