why are the NPCs i'm supposed to escort so passionate about charging head first into a group of enemies that "I" struggle against?
Arent they supposed to be weak and scared?

Bjorn the cornac beserker dispatche bill the troll without to much trouble seeking to further his adventure in the skellie caves, where he set upon Z'quikzshl the skeleton mold deftly dispatching him with Bill's old club (lvl 7 vs lvl 12)

Vimak the Cornac cursed was a powerful warrior casting his depression on his foes and though he rarely hit them with his powerful attacks in a battle of attrition he always won.

that is until he met a lvl 10, a lvl 11, and a lvl 12 rogue whilst trying to save a merchant. those enemies also had regen infusions and after much boredom and three wasted rezzes he sacrifices his life for nothing.

Statistics do not lie!
http://te4.org/game-statistics

The summed amount of time played by all tome players using an online profile has reached the two thousands days today! (hell it's even higher now!)
This is about 5 years and a half of ToME'ing !

I am glad to be able to give fun to many people and I hope it will continue for the many years to come!

Next goal: 10000 days (over 27 years) ! :)

TSAA led an eventful life, after bearing the misfortunes of his curse he sought to find adventure in the world. his life was uneventful; slaying the odd boss; until his pasage into the desert. he encountered a vicious beast there that tried to munch him but failed. TSAA relishd in this glorious kill goin from LVL 20 to 30. on his departed from the desert he heard a maiden cries and sought to help her.

he failed.

It would be better if death took you to the world map. Sure it is nice to be taken to the stairs when it was a small mistake, but the number of times I have lost 3 lives in a row and been unable to escape.

Primary goal: Unlock Yeek
Secondaries:
Test chronomancer
unlock antimagic
get to the bottom of daikia and the old forrest lake thing.

Note, shop keepers will no talk to undead without the illusion cloak.

BDay 28Jan in Beta19

the start was unexpectedly difficult.
Rushed to get an Icy Skin and never looked back. first level trippled my armor.
Aiming for anti magic
Labrinth was a sleepy way to level up. nothing could penetrate my armor. But they did die from hitting it.
After antimagic I maxxed my resolve against it
Looking for something more difficult founf the hafling ruins.
That was fun, found all the notes.
Then there was an eternal bone giant in a locked room and we couldnt kill each other.
Ice claw was the major attack at this stage but he was immune.
Saved the Yeek but asked about how lonely he was, so I didnt to know it was an unlock.
went dragon hunting, but that was scarry.
Saved some lumberjacks.
Bekame a berzerker but using knives
Rescued a singer whe taught me the Hymn of preservence.
Went back to the eternal bone giant and killed him twice, used up all my wands, ran away again.
Went back to hunting drakes, found a portal an jumped in.
Cleared out the area of time elementals.
waited...
Ran around clockwise...
Checked the forums...
Ran around anticlockwise then found the mam exit.
The rest of this quest was really fun and a little challenging.
Found out that the portal was not the end of the drake dungeon, going back.

Decided that I dont deserve an unmarked grave this time and began an obituary. This one...

level 18, wondering if i can take a snapshot of my charachter sheet.
Plenty of armor, enough to make me arrogant and get killed.
practically no damage output, espissialy when fighting cold drakes... again
4th journey to level 4 of Daikia, meybe I will find that there is a level 5?
Also found out today that the reason shops will not buy from me is patch 19, I thought it was because they were racist towards skelletons.
Also starting to lag out again like Anoikis did in Dreadfell.

Yay the boss was on the next level, pity he died on a mountain and I cannot reach the loot
YTay, 6 pickaxes in my backpack to chose from.

Hmm, seems I still have not killed the bos in Daikia. the stone dude must have been a bonus. Herre we go again, for the 5th time. Gave up again, this time due to lag.

actually that is getting past 3 seconds per keystroke, time for a different game I think.

Not entirely sure why, but all bosses were a minimum of 7 levels higher than me throughout my shadowblade. Tore apart everyone right up until the woodling, which was level 20 to my level 12, barely managed to take him out, then went into lake of Nur, was challenging but nothing ridiculous. Got to sher'tul, and promptly got beaten into a pulp by an unstoppable weirdling. ah well, i'm used to getting pulped by roguelikes. off to try another character

The new party system is great for alchemists who rely on their golems for brute strength, but it can be annoying when you switch control over to the servant and the AI throws a bomb at the wrong time. It would be wonderful if you could make a list of talents to either be allowed or banned from use by the AI.