dck wrote:How the hell is attracting the attention of monsters like a normal person cheating.
Ok, sorry, let's call it abusing bad AI.
Why do monsters shout when they see you but don't shout when you throw something or cast a spell at them? I could understand the silence if they still could not see you (it happens often with high stealth) but often they see you and still remain silent despite you have just attacked them.
Why?If you really want to have different behavior, it would make more sense to have the other way around:
1) you deal damage to monster. It hurts so the monster shouts (warning others, or just because of physical pain).
2) you fail stealth check. Monster notices something suspicious and goes out to investigate (and the monster is stupid to warn others because it is almost sure it will find nothing).
Basically that would change almost nothing, you could still retreat luring monster into explored territory, the only change is that now you should not waste your in-game and real time by throwing something and then picking it up.
Just add a command "Move your hands up and down to attract attention of all monsters in LoS" to "t" menu.