ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

No need to be snarky, Guevara-chan. I wasn't attacking you.

[*][/b] With Zigur being secretive citiy of secretive brotherhood it's actually a little strange to see their patrols being so easily discernible from ordinary adventurers pack. Could they just stop wearing those T-Shirts "I'm classified magehunter" while on such missions ? I really wonde...

Differential actions speeds are probably the most difficult effects to balance since they translate a continuous value into a heavily discretized variable. Apart from complete removal, which would require redesigning large fractions of the game, there could be a secondary effect to speed changes. Sa...

Yeah, not a fan of the Prides. Repetitive, and extremely stressful. Bad combo.

I'm pretty sure it's just talent level, but it would be worth a mention.

Actually, I think movement is the most trivial issue when it comes to multi-tile creatures. It's the graphical depiction, AI, and special effects (knockback or AoE, for example) that are most difficult to reason about. There certainly are solutions to these problems, but in general I'm not sure it's...

Hell, just provide a few conditions, and require some, all, or one. Kill a unique slime boss, traverse the slime tunnels, kill X slimes/molds/oozes, drink a "bottle of viscous green liquid."

It's not like "Humans, elves, and halflings team up to travel across the world and defeat an unknown ancient threat and their horde of orcs" sounds like the most original plot, but look at how things turn out. ToME's orcs are already pretty far removed from Tolkien's, and I think they'll m...

I was about to say that Kickstarter was a bad idea, but then I realized that the reason I dislike Kickstarter is because it's all flash and no substance (while ToME is already quite substantial). I'm still not sure how I'd vote. If you go the Kickstarter route, might I suggest a low main target with...

I'd rather see an intentional placement of the bosses away from the stairs, so it'd still be a possibility (just more unlikely). Getting jumped by the Master right as you come up the stairs is a little anticlimactic anyway.

The tying of Hurricane procs to daze seems like the greater issue. I'd rather the check be applied on lightning damage, or for stun immunity to be ignored for the purposes of applying Hurricane. Trading damage for crowd control seems reasonable without adding a confusing immunity check. Of course, t...

bricks: Most traps are faction-based and monsters won't trigger them. Er, did I imply otherwise somewhere? My "tactical" comment was more in regards to using short-range teleport traps to reposition yourself, not to lure enemies onto the traps (which could also be cool, but I'd assume tha...

In that case, the game might as well roll a dice when you enter the zone and kill you based on the outcome. If Vor Armoury must have teleport traps, they should be changed to something interesting. Traps are pretty dull anyway.

I think there are subtle ways to indicate which tiles are affected. Scanning over every tile with the mouse is absurd, and despite the heavy graphical treatment, ToME should not try to pretend it isn't on a grid. We might as well have projectile paths drawn as pixel-perfect lines instead of showing ...

I'm pretty sure you can change that number manually, though I don't recall where. Pyro/cryo have always been handled a little differently. Same might be true of the Reaver unlock.