ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

That's a pretty good point - I did strongly considered ghoul since Resilience & flat damage are a good pairing on paper, and getting doubleturned isn't as big a deal when you're swimming in so much mitigation via flat reduction. Bonus in that mindslayer's lowish health pool would make resilience...

Ins.Rogulike Mindslayer . The goal of this character was to pump flat damage reduction to whatever levels this character can manage. That level appears to be about ~600-750 (150~300 from Psi Shields, 150 from a decent torque, 150 from Subcutaneous Metallisation, and 150 from TrickyDefenses Antimagic...

Krog Berserker - another vanilla Ins.Roguelike character. Lost the Blood of Life somewhere in midgame although I don't remember how, but managed to wiggle its way to a win & Atamathon kill. The main differences between this Zerker and my older Cornac antimagic one is that this guy ignored Fungu...

Yeek cursed , the fifth Ins.Roguelike winner of that combo and the only one who didn't go the standard STR Cursed route. This cursed didn't follow any of the usual cursed advice, instead going heavy on psiblades, speed, and mindpower. The goal of this character was to press speed advantage to high ...

The Real Urkis , who slew his filthy doppleganger and went on to electrocute the world. Ins.Roguelike Shalore Archmage - aka the LIGHTNING WIZARD lightning cracks in distance I know nobody posts on the forums anymore...but whatever, I like posting character reports since it's fun to reread them yea...

After a two year absence I'm back to one of the best friggen games around, and this time with a Dwarf Brawler . The character sheet might read a bit weird, there's one death, and the final fight was stupid easy, and that's all due to the unexpected impact of the Spellhunts/Swift Hands bug . This was...

Issue Permanent loss of attack speed as if wearing an 'extra' heavy gauntlets item (this issue might affect Brawler only - I only tested with that class) when using Spellhunt's ability from a Swift Hands slot to crush an arcane item. Additionally, melee hits carry Spellhunt's on-hit effects of deli...

Yet another instance of hilariously high DMG/APR, crit mult, boosted global speed, throwing a multihit talent and obliterating a player in one go. This is easily the most dangerous kind of enemy in ToME, and unfortunately the damage output of some of these guys is so busted that there's nearly no at...

In my opinion, it was always multiple actions (whether from Greater Weapon Focus, Flurry, TK Strike, enemy getting a doubleturn, etc) combined with extreme weapon damage that caused most unexpected deaths from explosive burst damage. I've been outta the game for two years, but it seems like these pr...

Did a quick search on the codebase for it, here's the relevant bit.

Seems to be:

• Check FoV for enemies
• Check if damage was taken
• Check if damage dealt
• Check for temp. detrimental effects
• 5 turns

As far as I can tell, starsapphire has it right.

I think I agree on most points you've made. In particular the new player experience of being led to and obliterated by bosses is something that needs a bit more consideration. The 'min level' indication on the world map has led tons of new players to their doom if chat is anything to go by. Bandit L...

Another one that I find quite annoying and pretty much always run from if I can't dispel it is Displacement Shield. Against caster randbosses, you often can't eat a nuke spell and also hit yourself on the same turn without dying, which is fairly likely if you attack into the shield, so it's safer t...

I usually put off the area until level 15 at the earliest; there's not a whole lot of reason to go in early. Knowing about shadow veil is handy - I usually apply status disables early and save other defenses for when veil triggers. The most danger I've really had from him so far is sometimes his poi...

Dwarf Bulwark! My goal with this character was to try out a couple of disdained concepts; namely going all in on saves (ignoring immunities) and making heavy use of shield block & eternal guard. Insane Adv mode (no deaths), vaultless. The only gameplay-changing addon was my combat veteran rewor...

I didn't mean 'skip' as in literally never going there, but rather avoid all or most of the combat inside. For a couple of the prides, you can burrow + lightning speed around the edge of the map to the other side, you don't even need to hit the switches, it seems. One of them (the one with the drago...