I share Nivek's sentiment about your past history and so forth.

At any rate, Death traps are really not that big of a problem. If you use the LOOK and EX commands you can generally see from the description, or if you look in a direction, what's up with it. If LOOKING is telling you that the path is getting "more and more trecherous"... step back if you don't want to take the risk.

The general CF attitude is for exploration, though. It's just a fact of life. Most people would rather go on when seeing that message, because they might find something "really, really cool."

Let's face it. The Immortals here are sick. That's why I like this place so much. The area designers will hide nifty things in tree stumps, rewarding the observant. They'll also put in a death trap, punishing the unobservant.

To me it's that simple.