Hey there to whoever reads this,

I was recommended this game by a very, very old person. I am 19 years old and know nothing about it - going in blind for the first time, unspoiled.
I'm starting to really enjoy the game. If you check my profile, you'll see I've already gone through around four characters? All of them died low level, but that's besides the point.
Now that I've got a grasp of the very, very basics I've created a character called Sabrina, a summoner.
My gameplay of this game will be going up on my YouTube channel.
This is entirely a passion project by me as I attempt to hone my video making and other skills, but I thought maybe someone who had played the game for a long time would like to follow along with me as I inevitable end up dying and having to start over again. For example, the first video I've uploaded of ToME has no music whenever there's a speed up - which is a lot of the time. Typical. But I will fix that for next time.
The game seems incredibly well made. Looking forward to playing more.

Be seeing you,
Daeron

Hello, reader!

    I recently started playing TOME. It runs well on my old computer and looks interesting. This is my first turn-based game, and I'm still learning it. 

Besides this blog, I'll be posting and streaming my gameplay on YouTube channel Sephia Sky Gaming.

Thank you for reading! See you in the game.

Today I Will Eat At Culvers

- Stat spread

• DEX > STR > CUN > CON? If considering Grappling
• DEX > CUN > STR > CON If not going Grappling at all

- Good talents to prioritize:

• Touch of Death for damage
• Axe Kick to make enemies braindead if not saved against, use against elites randboss
• Flurry of Fists and Double Strike should be on 4 points, due to 1.3x Mastery 4 points will let them proc the effects
• Combination Kick for sustain stripping
• Haymaker is good damage

- Keep an eye out

• Butterfly Kick and Concussive Punch don't offer much better damage than the above listed for damage scaling when put in points
• Exploit Weakness in the Cunning / Tactical tree only affects physres

- The grappling tree:

• Extremely good for 1v1, damage mitigation is nice
• Crushing Hold to 4 points for all effects
• Shut down mages and casters with grappling, dig zigzag to make optimal layouts to runaway if grappling fails to go through, and fight 1v1

- Races for the class

• Halfling / Dwarf: Bread and butter melee class compatible races
• Shalore: Save up points from Blinding Speed

- Prodigies

• Swift Hands
• Flexible Combat : good damage
• Maybe ICCTW / Superpower

- Note to self: Wyrmic lacks any flat damage reduc, and putting in class talent points for allres when it could be on damage prevention such as damaging talents or utility talents, be careful

• Force fights 1v1 with terrain manip. Extremely important

- Weapon Wyrmic stat spread is STR > WIL > CUN > DEX
- Breath Wyrmic is the same but WIL can be capped out more

- Open with Static Field, especially if levelled up. %healthDamage if failed to be saved can chunk off massive health.

• If playing with Drem, possible multiple times can trigger Static Field

- Ice Wall is transparent and can be used from range ( take note for myself, as I always use it in melee range ), use it to:

 -> Block projectiles
 -> Cut off enemies ( for meditate and seperating them )
 -> Confuse enemy ( They will still try and path around and away from it )

- Ice Wall blocks can be turned permanent if you use Quake, creating little islands. This takes time to setup, so do it as part of pre buff

- Using Reckless Charge ( two-hand offense tree ) with Burrow, move into diggable walls without digging that wall. Then move into another tile to dig that one, isolating yourself.

• NOTE: You will still suffocate. Bring a Belt with unlife ego to make use of this.

- Higher Draconic Ability is okay for melee Wyrmic, to be tested on Breath Wyrmic

• It's true value lies in the Poison, which cannot be saved against - and second to it is the respen

- Possible races:

• Drem - breath
• Halfling / Dwarf - melee
• Shalore - WIL synergy; Treants hit really hard and inherit your BlightRes to be converted to AllRes, higher points in the talent may result in Treants chainstunning due to (treantTalentLvl equals to TalentLvl)

- Prodigies:

• Flexible Combat, Cauterize, Draconic Will

Today I met Reginald and nothing was gained.

Well I am back after a hiatus of a few years! And as such I have mostly forgotten how to play TOME, but as I am craving some Roguelike goodness (and masochistic punishment) I will be restarting all over again.

If any wish to watch me flail about I will be live streaming the game on Twitch (@ https://www.twitch.tv/geek_chef) and archiving the footage on youtube (Geek Chef Gaming)

Been struggling to kill The Master for months on nightmare roguelike. Saw someone else's advice to try antimagic and I hatched a plan to punch The Master to death out of spite. Long story short I went for a crazy antimagic brawler and managed to punch him to death with a single hp remaining. I even had to turn into a parasite to keep punching. I died immediately after from the leftover minions (antimagic wore off and regen wore off) but despite that I feel accomplished. This was my highest character ever. Here's to making it to the Far East.

My character for proof :)
https://te4.org/characters/318379/tome/7e1c4287-7438-4d18-a032-7fd032f6da22

Been struggling to kill The Master for months on nightmare roguelike. Saw someone else's advice to try antimagic and I hatched a plan to punch The Master to death out of spite. Long story short I went for a crazy antimagic brawler and managed to punch him to death with a single hp remaining. I even had to turn into a parasite to keep punching. I died immediately after from the leftover minions (antimagic wore off and regen wore off) but despite that I feel accomplished. This was my highest character ever. Here's to making it to the Far East.

My character for proof :)
https://te4.org/characters/318379/tome/7e1c4287-7438-4d18-a032-7fd032f6da22

Alrighty, I've been forgetting to do this post for ages. My first and only ascender back in Tome 2.0 or so was named Reginald, and nearly every character I've made in Tome since was a Reginald. If you search the vault for 'Reginald' , mine is the first, and I've got one on every page of search results. But the joke came from somewhere, and I'd be remiss in my duty if I didn't at least clue people in. See, back in Tome 2.0 (I think), it kept a record of how your characters died, "So-and-so died of starvation," or "Whatsisname was choked to death by Smeagol," etc., and I think it was about then that I'd found this video on a now defunct flash website with a joke about Reginald. So whenever I wondered, what happened to Reginald, I'd remember this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j41j-9bnIDA

That ascender was a possessor, if anyone was wondering. Super strong, even back in the day.