Monsters include the fantasy standards, like trolls, goblins, orcs, and Mysterious Water Creatures, called snappers in this incarnation, plus a few new ones like the Shadowbeast and something called a meatbug. There are also several types of skeletons, undead creatures and demons. Monsters have lives of their own, and don t stand motionless, waiting for a hapless player to stroll by. They might ally against you, or might be tricked into attacking your opponents for you. Feed a hungry beast and it might ignore you altogether.
Some monsters even use better equipment when they can find it.
Drop your magic sword in front of a goblin, and you might quickly find yourself in a lot of trouble. Anything can pass in, but nothing can leave, as long as it lives. The kingdom is beset by Orcish armies from the north, and the king s armies desperately need ore for the forges. Even minor crimes are punished with hard labor in the mines. Ore is sent out through the barrier in exchange for supplies, but what comes in is controlled by a powerful few, while the rest toil endlessly for the leftover scraps.