ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Heres my idea ;

Currently when you change floors in Escape from Reknor , you gain a level. The easiest way to escape the whole thing for me is to find the staircases as soon as possible , to get to floor 3 ( and also gain 2 level at the same time ) , and then i backtrack to floor 1 to clear them completly , getting extra exp and gear all together.

I kinda felt that it wasnt intended to be like this ; it would be more challenging in my opinion if there was no possibility to backtrack to the previous floor ( just remove the staircases to get back to the previous level basicly , while warning the players maybe. ) This way , it would force the player to explore floor 1 at level 1 to get his gear before walking down to get his level 2 , and proceed to clear floor 2.

Or, if you want to make it more challenging without disallowing backtrack(which I think is a bit...weird), could remove the 'free'level ups but make the player and Norgan share exp?

As long as you can still be level 3 when you fight the boss...