[Phelan]

I wasn't talking about lack of challenge in the long run, I was talking about tha fact that challenges you encounter after a week or month aren't any challenge at all anymore after a year. Remember - we're talking about a 20 year old character (or so) who probably hasn't just been living in his mother's basement, but who has 'lived' in an apparently relatively hostile world. But he still gets killed by a single rat. After a week of suddenly learning how to fight rats (which, of course, he didn't learn before for some reason), he can take on a goblin or two, albeit barely. Six months later, ten other goblins of the same tribe see him again and think, hey, he beat two of our warriors, but easy prey now that we're more - and they get wiped away with a single backswing of his bare hand. (just an example obviously, but I hope you get my point)