ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I am against more sentient weapons. Even now, priests, archers and loremasters spend too much time leveling up the sentient weapons to see what they would get. A sentient axe could make axemasters more interesting, but many other classes would become more boring. Splitting swordmastery means you bas...

No wins yet, my last good character was killed by Sauron on Mount Doom. I think that counts getting a 1/3 winner

The best roguelike... depends on mood. Vanilla & ToME are the best ones, and I voted for the one with less bugs. I have tried ADOM but for some reason it is less fun than the *band family. One option is missing. If you think a module of ToME is best, what would you vote then? 'ToME' or 'Other *b...

Splitting the church in a few parts is reasonable. At that time, the Irish/Celtic churches were not in that good terms with Rome. Patron Saints would be a very good way of doing that.

I think Vanilla Angband is the classic and ToME is the best variant of that classic. (Z & Heng are also great, but ToME is best.) Vanilla is a mature game, whereas ToME has still lots of unrealized potential. Codewise, Vanilla is better. I have never crashed it. I like the randomness of Vanilla,...

I'd use a real-world disease. Leprosy or Plague would be good replacements. For cure, Golden Apples (of Idun). Maybe she is dropping these occasionally in the dungeons. If you get eternal youth by eating these, it should also remove illnessess. That is, unless you have other ideas for the apples. Ma...

I may also need help designing new tiles for the artifacts and monsters which will replace ToME's standard ones (does an artifact Phial exist in any real-world mythos?). In the meantime, though, I do wonder whether Norseband Lite can be released as ASCII only... In ZAngband 2.2. there were plenty o...

See what happens when you haphazardly combine multiple themes with untested, iffy, and sometimes downright silly ideas? Well, then you get ZAngband, or some other tongue-in-cheek variant. I hope Norseband will fork out of T-Plus, and T-Plus will continue it's own life as a module. But there are som...

I use the main window, message recall and visible monster list. For monster recall and dungeon overview, I think 'l' and 'M' is enough.

You need to 'A'ctivate the Flame on an unenchanted heavy crossbow, longsword, power dragon scale mail, or mage staff. And then you have to wield it, I presume. This excludes Monks and Dragon-Possessors. Barehand-fighting means you can't use a mage staff, longsword, or heavy armour. The dragon-posse...

There are two factors that affect my diving. I recall back to town when I run out of some common scroll or potion (Identify, Cure Critical Wounds, Satisfy Hunger) or need something I keep stocked (like *Identify* or Cure Insanity). Once I get a rod, spell or artifact to cover one of these, it is no ...

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You can't win the game unless you are very patient and a veteran (or a cheater). Random quests are good for building up your monster memory. You can get pretty good equipment as reward. Boots of Speed (+10) in Mirkwood is my best reward so far. The rewards from random quests can be pretty good. I th...

My recipe for getting safely out of Orc Caves (Ent Paladin). At character creation, it is safe to go for high DEX and decent STR-CON-WIS. Set your exploration to running: Ent's are always slow and never stealthy. Take the Bree House quest first. Then buy a pick, and take Maggot's Mushroom quest. Gro...

This character had Prayer maxxed out. It was actually a Paladin, but difference to Mindcrafter is not that big. I think my base was 6 blows (Longsword with STR/DEX at 18/***), and then +4 blows from a Boomerang of Aman (started at +2, two scrolls of Craftmanship :)), and I think the other two were f...