ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I'm finding the requirement to find 15 staves to be a bit much for unlocking mages, considering that I'm the type whose character who made it the deepest in Tome 2.x was a yeek sorcerer, and how rare staves seem to be...

"Blast and blink"?

If you need to blink, you didn't blast hard enough, and are fairly likely dead.

I'd just as soon see the Nether Realms done away with entirely. I've never actually *gotten* to them, but the descriptions I've read seem to indicate that they break the Tolkienian flavor of the game entirely, and they seem to turn that part of the game into tedium from what others say about playing...

I must say that with my playing style, i am not familiar enough with traps to really be qualified to say what the nastiest one is. i tend to play a sorceror and take great care to always cast sense hidden as my first action upon entering a level, and always cast it upon reaching the end of a trap de...

With 2.3 I'm kinda in and out, but probably one of the things that would really get me back to playing alot would be a 3.0 release.