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I don't quite understand them. There are hundreds of good combat-oriented graphical computer games, many of them also have good stories, characters and dialogs.

Do you like to play text-based combat?

If you do, what makes you choose to spend your time with a text game instead of a graphical one?

Can a text-based combat be as good as graphical or even better?

Let's discuss it! :)

Have you played Dungeon Stompage! ?

Nope :)

I really don't like to read about killing monsters. But maybe I'll give it a shot one day.

Dungeon  Stompage is good, but in terms of raw combat-simulator, it falls flat compared to graphical works.

Text-based can be different because these days most graphics-based combat games seem (to me) to be primarily based on who can click the mouse the fastest...

Mostly yes :(

But there are some RPGs with a tactical pause where the combat require strategy (for example, Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age). And there are so many good NWN modules made by users that it will probably take thousands of hours to play them all...

Those are my favorite type of RPG, when I can pause the game, give a number of actions, then re-start the action. Baldur's Gate was one of my all-time favorites.

This is where it starts. All graphical games were once text base. You need to know how to plan the algorium before implementing graphics. That's why I used to write them, anyway.