ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I'm always astonished by how many lumberjacks I save in the ""The Beast Within" quest and by how little money they give me. Seriously, they give like 1 gold apiece. What a bunch of cheap-asses.

Anyway, I figure these lumberjacks are poor in money but rich in tools. I think a great reward would be to receive a non-artifact, egoed digger of your choice. The more lumberjacks you save, the greater the selection.

By the way, the furthest I've gotten before finding a digger is the final room in Reknor with the farportal. It was rather frustrating and annoying to not have a digger for so long.

I don't see why diggers don't show up in shops. Maybe one in Lost Hope and one in the dwarven kingdom. Or maybe the player could just start with a non-egod digger.

The obvious combination of these things is to put a shop with diggers and lights in the Lumberjack village if you manage to save a certain number of them. It's a bit odd to have that village there and totally useless for the rest of the game.