How do I go about mucking the innards of this game?

[Omega Blue]

Like snooping around the trees, tinkering with the balance, and so forth.

[yufra]

This varies a bit on different platforms. In Linux and Windows you should be able to find a game folder in the ToME directory, and you can look at all of the Lua files in game/modules/tome to tinker with things. The talents can be found in the game/modules/tome/data/talents directory. Keep in mind that some of the talent effects (particularly passive talents) are coded elsewhere, for example game/modules/tome/class/interface/Combat.lua. Feel free to join the IRC channel and ask specific questions there, too. Have fun!

[Omega Blue]

Thanks! What should I use to open the Lua files (under Windows)?

[paboperfecto]

I use TextPad (www.textpad.com), Shareware, the full version is free trial for as long as you want and it's pretty cheap if you do decide to buy it. You will need to download the .lua definition files once you get it installed.

[Dervis]

Personally, I use SciTE... It's freeware and with a couple interesting tools in it.

[edge2054]

I have SciTE and Notepad ++ downloaded and I use Notepad++ pretty much exclusively. The former has more tools but the later is much much easier on the eyes.