Has this happened to you in the prison (funny picture, minor spoiler)Frictionaltrolls

[stevensonbak]

I think you'd really have had to make a ton of stupid mistakes to get hurt enough to use the laudanum when you can just regenerate health, even when you're barely concious, so making through the game with tons of those should be no surprise.

As for oil and tinderboxes, it all depends on your play style, really; if you are a more stationary player, you like to take time to look around, study your surroundings, in no real hurry, then you probably use tons of tinder boxes to light your surroundings and not waste lamp oil.

If you're a more aggressive and less conservative player, odds are you'll end up using the lamp for the most part, as it is a useful mobile source of light that can shine anywhere that fixed light fixtures can't.