When you're reading books, the game should alert you when a new monster gets within your line-of-sight, rather than when you get attacked. For characters like Mist Elves and wizards of all kinds who have very low Toughness, getting attacked by a monster could spell death. For example, I was playing my Mist Elven Wizard delving into the Caverns of Chaos. I had just gotten past the Animated Forest and was Strained! while having 7 books in my inventory. I decided to read them all to drop the weight. In the middle of reading the last book, Invisibility, a Lightning Vortex comes up to me and instantly kills me. The thing is, I had the Black Torc on me which I could have equipped for Shock resistance (I didn't have it intrinsicly), I had the Invisibility spell already available to cast and all of my ~250 PP available for use, if I didn't want to outright kill the Vortex. I also had Teleport and Teleport Control. I had all the tools I needed to survive if I had been given the chance, but the chance was not given to me. Hence, the reason I'm suggesting this change. In a game as brutal as ADOM where I'm trying to play without making back-ups so that my game is "legit", it truly stings to die in a way that feels so unfair.