Orkhepaj: does that really work?
nightcraw1er.488: Until someone actually manages to hit you, yes.
Sounds a bit like a Metal Slime from the Dragon Quest series.
For those not aware, here are some traits of this particular monster type:
* Low HP. (3 or 4 for a plain Metal Slime, and only the most powerful can even *think* of double digit HP.)
* High defense, enough so that most attacks have a 50% chance of dealing 1 damage, otherwise don't do any. (Note that critical hits ignore defense in DQ.)
* Immune to magic. (Sometimes spells that would remove the enemy without yielding XP are excluded, and breath attacks work on them in DQ3 and original DQ4 (though they only 1 damage in the latter).
* Not particularly dangerours.
* Likes to run away.
* If you defeat one, you get a lot of XP, to the point where, in much of the series, killing them becomes the only practical way to reach high levels. (Note that you don't get XP if it runs away.)
(By the way, it's not that easy to run from a Metal Slime, but if you try and fail, it's quite likely that the Metal Slime will run away.)
It occurred to me that the Dink monster from Wizardry 4 is similar, but with low AC instead of defense, and without the XP yield. (Note that the Dink in Wizardry 2 is not nearly as hard to hit.)