ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

My suggestion would be, guarantee (at least) one escort of each type.

Then if your Anorithil gets eaten by Wrathroot or The Master or something, you have a failsafe in Worldy Knowledge. But at least every char has a fair chance of getting every escort reward.

For #2, was there also an enemy in line of sight? Over time escorts have changed from hopelessly suicidal to hopelessly paranoid (although the latter is a big improvement, to be sure!).

Very interested in seeing this infamous bug finally fixed.

Dominant will used to have a ton of bugs like this, but eventually got sorted out. Might want t look at what its code does to ensure that charmed mobs still count as "killed."

Although not visible to outside observes, the spellhunt broke Linaniil's spirit to the point that she now is devoting all of her energies to wreaking revenge on Maj'eyal. Her two-pronged strategy involves sending the sorcerers to awaken the ancient God to scour the earth from existence, and in case ...

This was fixed in 1.1.4, but your old characters are out of luck.

I tried Elemental Harmony a long time ago and wasn't impressed, but you're right that +40% speed is well worth 6 generic and 1 cat point. Will test.

Yeah nobody really likes how the core game works, that's why we're trying to fix it. Let's try to stay constructive. Thanks. I'm voting for an option that's not on the poll, "don't make it a trap." If you don't like this solution for whatever reason, that's fine, but it doesn't make it no...

Why Yeek Archmage? I won't claim that Yeek is the optimal race for an archmage. It's certainly not the easiest race and class to play, particularly in the early- and mid-game; if you're first starting out, I'd recommend looking at an alchemist, skeleton archmage, or corrupter instead. Still, a Yeek...

Are you getting any messages/errors from Steam about synching your saves to the cloud?

This thing shouldn't be a trap at all. It doesn't make any thematic sense, doesn't match the talent description at all, and makes for unfun gameplay ==> triple fail.

What game version did the Core in your vault come from?

If you win the game with Triumph of the Way, but helped the Grand Corrupter along the way, the win message still includes the part about the Grand Corrupter soon posing a threat to Maj'eyal. Since the first ending message states that only Angolwen citizens were able to resist the Way, this doesn't m...

He only helps if you leave the beach "normally." If you Recall out of a bugged beach, he has no additional dialogue.

From the log it appears that the game is refusing to generate the Orb of Many Ways because it believes it already has somewhere else. This shoudn't be possible since the Orb is tagged as a quest artifact; that is the root bug here. If you had the full game log you could see exactly where the Orb was...