ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

This usually happens in very large dungeons...maybe the solution is to take a page from *bands and have a surrounding "permanent" wall to terminate the edge of the level?

Wait until you find some of annihilation of annihilation. Those were some nasty arrows.

That...doesn't link to an archmage? :) Unfortunately, you've gotten about as far as I ever have as an alchemist, so any advice I have is mostly theoretical. I remember I had an alchemist who focused on fire alchemy who was pretty powerful. Firestorm was pretty awesome, so points there might be handy...

What if, instead of straight reducing paradox, it gave you "temporary" paradox? IE you repair 120 paradox, but 10 turns later you get 120 back, and a chance of random anomalies just as if you'd cast a 120 paradox spell. Using the rune to temporarily "patch" the timeline, basically.

"CRIMINY, ye knocked 'is bloomin' skin off! We're bandits, but that's just harsh."

Huh. I haven't played a lot of Paradox Mages, so I never even played the TR with one. It hadn't occured to me how rough that might be. Hmm. It feels weird to me, that an event revolving around time might be a particularly difficult quest for a master of time manipulation. I don't have an opinion on ...

I agree that class-specific unlocks are bad...or at least unpleasant. I'd like to unlock the Marauder, but I seriously hate Rogues. Maybe it could be changed to something like "Deal X amount of damage from stealth or invisibility"? That'd give every class *some* chance of unlocking it, whi...

Oh, there's a neat idea. Close racially inappropriate zones, but after you complete "your" zones open special quests for the other starter towns that involve fighting both of their bosses(and a number of mooks) simultaneously. The "story" here is that since there was nobody aroun...

To be fair, holding up examples of classes which "need" or "very badly could use" the extra dungeons for powering up(re: Dwarf Cursed) is more a show case of "this should be fixed" than anything to do with the dungeons themselves. As for "I don't think the starter ...

I think it'd be good to give every starter zone a "Kill-Bill" style quest, and close off non-appropriate classes. If the opportunity for artifacts/loot is a problem...maybe a race-neutral tier-1 dungeon could show up somewhere? It could be a 3-4 level dungeon with 1-2 bosses. That'd give e...

I recommend more points into teleport, if you can spare it. Controlled teleport is a beautiful thing, especially against powerful enemies. If nothing else, 1 point into each of the earth tree's talents means you have a 4-5 turn safety net in stonewall, and the ability to make your own protection ver...

I prefer it as-is. Usually I'll walk all over stuff while I'm fighting or leading an escort, and I'd prefer auto-explore do the backtracking for me.

Huh. That makes sense, actually. Thick Skin + Armor Survival + some sort of dual trap find/trap disarm(doesn't really need to be two talents anyway...having the first is only useful if you have the second, and vice-versa) + something? Those are the only skills I can think where everyone wants at lea...

I'm not sure I could resist the urge to strangle the escort with my own hands if I managed to get a second copy.

Adventurer is a weird mode for me. If I die from something I *should* have survived(playing careless/stupid...), I usually start from scratch anyway. I generally only let myself cheat death when it's one of those "WHOA WHAT" moments.