ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

amaurea wrote:But the registration would not let me proceed without a WikiName.

Ah, I see what you mean. Well, I don't know if it is possible to disable that requirement. Perhaps Neil can comment on that.

amaurea wrote:I don't like how it requires a FirstnameLastname. I use amaurea, in all lowercase, on the internet, and I would like to continue to do so. I could do AmaurEa, but I'd rather not. Is there a way to get around this?

Yup, just use ["amaurea"] if you want to link to your wiki home page.

Da alchemist wrote:What's ACLs?

Access Control List.

The *thancs are not mentioned in any work of Tolkien I have read, and the only Google references to Dethanc et al. are to Angband derivatives.

One ToME win. Pure luck (both kinds). Haven't even got close to winning another roguelike.

Well, it depends. After I have spent plenty of time on a character who eventually ends up dying, I usually get exhausted of that game for a while and play another. ToME is easier to survive in than vanilla, Sang and sCth (which are the variants I play most in addition to ToME), so if I'm in a quick'...

Ratatosk , a Dwarven Barbarian Male Warrior is my best character. (I won with a High-Elven Sorceror , which was almost as fun.) I chose zero quests this time because the 98 quests I beat with my winning sorceror got very annoying towards the end. Also because I like fast diving. It was my first war...

On FreeBSD/XFree I use "tome -- -n3" for three windows and resize them manually. You could test whether this works on Solaris as well.

Play defensively. Have means of escape. Pick your battles. Don't stand next to a monster if you're not going to melee it. Know how to play the particular class you're playing. Know your spells (tomes/books, wands, rods, staves...) Know thy God. You can never have enough HP or mana. Know where to fin...