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#172

Not to plug Murkon's Refuge, which is a fully-featured free online game which you can play now by going to http://www.rinkworks.com/refuge/, but I think it's so nice that ravenous fire-breathing animals are so sporting about hunting you down. There's a strict code of honor, you know. Once one group of beasties has had its chance at you and lost, the next will wait patiently and give you a chance to loot the bodies and recover before attacking. I can just imagine being down there, surrounded by nightmarishly evil monsters, and you've just slain a humongous Dragon Giant of the Underworld, and while you're still physically fully functional, you're about one paper cut away from instant death, and all these Hobgoblins of Toxic Fire -- creatures that kill for pleasure, drink the blood of their victims out of skull goblets, and use kneecaps for frisbees -- are standing around being all noble and saying, "We wait until you are ready." So meanwhile you get to rest up, take some time to disarm a booby-trapped chest, bag the loot, swap some equipment around, hang out a while, shoot the breeze. The hobgoblins kill time with dice and cards and stuff. ("Spades are trumps, I believe, Oogk.") Then finally you're all ready for battle, and the hobgoblins nod politely back as they gather their assorted war hammers and battle axes. Then you RUN FOR IT, and the hobgoblins chase you about ten feet, say, "AW, NOT THE WALK-THROUGH-A-DOOR ESCAPE TRICK! Man, that gets us EVERY TIME!" and go home.