I think Daniel had enough of it... (Humor.)

[Bifford]

I played most of the game without using the lantern, so I could sneak and hide better from those horrible...things. It was only near the final third of the game, past the Cistern, that I really started to use my tinderboxes. I think I ended the game with 60 of them and 11 oils.

The only places I needed to light fires were near landmarks like doorways or junctions or death pits. Yeah, you light too many torches and you run out of hiding spots.