well Jayde, even in matters of spelling I'm not easily offended, though my opinions on bad grammar are slightly different.
As to combat, as I said, if the system lends itself to some appropriately atmospheric or interestingly strategical combat, then it would certainly be fun, it's just the hole bog standard, you hit it, it hits you, you take less damage, it dies, thing that annoys me, especially when people palm it off as propper rpg style combat.
If I remember the 2nd edition Ad&d Dm guide properly (Though of course now we'd call said person the Gm), there are actually some suggestions for descriptions of combat actions.
As far as interesting strategical combat goes, I think there'd be a lot of mileage in roguelikes if a couple of the accessibility features introduced in Warprogue could be used in other games.
I'm experimenting with the Adom game which has lots of nice plot and considderably more quests than the average roguelike, however things like navigation, and talking to other charactors is proving slightly frustrating at the moment.
perhaps opening a discussion with the game's creator would be a worthwhile thing to do.
I was also recently having a chat with somebody who wants to create a full interactive fiction style display for Nethack, but how that's going to work I don't know at the moment.
I'm afraid Jayde, that I'm of the school that believes if in an Rp setting your wet behind the ears apprentice warrior char takes it into their head to pick a fight with something incredibly hard, they deserve whatever comes to them. Of course, in more freeform environments like Muds, the situation might be different, ----- especially if (as happens in World of Warcraft), there are specific areas in the game set aside for Pvp.
Cx2, I would certainly fancy running into you on a mud, or roleplay group. I'm in search of a flat at the moment, and when that comes up I'll certainly be looking into all of these things. sinse almost all of the roleplay in durham tends to be of the larp variety, I'd especially like to find a rping group over skipe, ----- though the audio tips one probably wouldn't work timing wise sinse I tend to work most week day mornings if I can (unless like today, I'm feeling ESPECIALLY lazy).
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)