ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Had this ridiculous ring show up at level 30. Naturally it couldn't have dropped when I was still collection +lighting res gear, or on one of my always-die-young lightning archmagi. :( Seriously, how does a tier 2 item, even a randart, end up with that much of any stat? ring.png [edit] This was on N...

HousePet wrote:I like them. It wakes me up and gives me a challenge.
Its just a shame you don't really get any more xp or higher level loot for killing them. :/

Wait, you don't get more XP for higher lever mobs? What determines the XP amount, then, the "quality" (boss/elite/etc) of the mob?

Character dump here . This was not only my first ToME win, but also my first win at any roguelike ever, and I've been playing them (horribly, no doubt) for going on a decade and a half. This win even got my 5-year-old daughter and my wife excited. :D Wildfire is awesome. Burning Wake is awesome. Cle...

There are a couple of UI tweaks when purchasing unique items that would make it much nicer and bring it line with how the rest of the UI behaves: 1) First, the ability to cancel out of the pick-your-item-type dialog would be really helpful. I hit the option out of curiosity, not out of desire to pur...

Thanks for the reply. It's good to know that it really is the class, and that I didn't suddenly develop some competence at this game. :) I actually gave anorithil a try the last few days and found it quite to my liking. I did get seriously frustrated with escorts, since i couldn't auto-regen negativ...

So after playing around last year with a Bulwark, then coming back in 1.0.3/1.0.4 and leaving plenty of archmagi to rot in Dreadfell, I decided to roll a summoner. I've played roguelikes for a decade and a half now, and this is the only time I've come remotely close to winning (which I'm sure says s...