ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

For items where it is appropriate "Wield/Wear" in the inventory menu should be replaced with "Wield in Main hand" "Wield in Offhand" and "Wield as Psionic Focus". Rings too "Wear on left hand" "Wear on right hand" This would remove annoying inventory cycling games, and keep inventory swaps in time critical situations down to a single turn.

If trying to wield a two hander to replace a mainhand/offhand combo It would be preferable to have a dialogue come up saying "Equipping this will replace X item, Y" yes/no. rather than just giving you a stern look and saying NO!. Conversely trying to replace a 2 handed sword with a shield should just un-equip the god-damned sword without an argument This is a roguelike! I should be able to die from silly little inventory management slip-ups without the game second guessing me!

I would recommend this being from right clicking (or pressing return over) the equipment slot (the name of it, not the item). This could also apply to rings. It would make searching for an item to wear much easier while carrying a bunch of items.

It would be nice to have both - an offslot option for rings and daggers/shields, and a click on slot to bring up available item to replace with (thus reducing the trouble of inventory clutter).

Add "equip as alternate main hand" and "equip as alternate off hand". Or at least "wear / wield alternate".