Tales of Maj'Eyal: Difference between revisions

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Like its parent game and other games in the genre, TOME revolves around the player character delving into a dungeon with limited resources. What separates it from other Angband variants is it's scope -- whereas most Angband variants have a single dungeon and small town at the top, TOME contains an entire world map based on Tolkien's Middle Earth, complete with multiple towns and dozens of dungeons, all with different themes. In addition, the game has a quest system, giving the pointless dungeon crawling some actual point.

However, in 2010 development was restarted after the Author returned, resulting in TOME 4 -- a complete rewrite of the game. Moving away from "Tales of Middle Earth" to "Tales Of Maj'Eyal" to avoid the possibility of a second Cease and Desist letter, as well as making the High Fantasy elements (fireballs and teleportation spells) make more sense, the game is currently going through a development version of [[Wiki Magic]].

 

 

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** Except the Sher'tul farportal, which can be explored repeatedly if you have enough energy to sustain it.

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: [[Once an Episode|Once per dungeon]], you find the records left behind by some previous explorer. Typically, the final record either ends abruptly after a reference to the boss (and has bloodstains on it), or describes how the writer was corrupted or hypnotized into allying with the boss. It's almost surprising when a dungeon hints that the writer might have survived (e.g. {{spoiler|the apprentice mage in the Maze}}.)

* [[Body Horror]]: The vast majority of the enemies in the Deep Below are this. {{spoiler|They used to be a dwarven expedition which got corrupted by the presence of Amakthel. The boss is the transfiguration of the foreman's ''mouth''.}}

* [[Burn the Witch]]: ''Very'' common during the Age of Dusk, when mages were thought to have activated the Spellblaze ''intentionally''. Not to mention thought to one and all be necromancers and warlocks. One document from the time says that this is a pretty ineffective way of ridding yourself of a warlock--like they ''wouldn't'' think to ward themselves against this--but still likes it ''for setting an example when magic sympathizers are killed this way''.

* [[Cosmetic Award]]: Some of the achievements are like this, but others unlock bonus classes and races. For example, dying to undead gives you the (very very LOW) chance to {{spoiler|unlock undead subraces.}} The achievements for getting {{spoiler|specific magic books unlock spellcaster classes.}} Both of these conditions were changed in later versions. You can now unlock the undead races by defeating The Master at the bottom of Dreadfell, and the extra spellcaster classes no longer exist -- They've been merged into the Archmage class, and unlocking them unlocks extra talent trees for Archmages.

* [[Unwinnable]]: This can happen if you {{spoiler|kill Aerwyn the Sun Paladin before she tells you about the slime tunnel. You need to go through the tunnel in order to reach the final dungeon.}}

** If you do the following, the special quest where there's an electric storm cloud above Derth becomes impossible to finish.

* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]]: The {{spoiler|Sher'tul fortress}} needs to be powered up by dumping objects in its reactor core. This produces useless gold as an undesirable byproduct, and is thus given to you to dispose of as you see fit.

 

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