Adds a new evolution for Shadowblades, the Umbral Incantor.

As an Umbral Incantor, the Shadowblade will regenerate 1 mana per turn and gain several bonuses to their talents if they are equipped with a staff:

- Shadow Combat: the damage will also be triggered when you cast Channel Staff, and when triggered this way can be a spell critical
- Shadowstep: teleport back to starting location after the attack
- lluminate: will use Shadow Dance without cost or triggering cooldown
- Invisibility: will be cast instantly without cost when Stealth is deactivated (still triggers cooldown)
- Shadow Grasp: will pin for 3 turns instead of pulling
- Shadow Veil: rather than blink and attack, you will cast Shadow Grasp on targets selected (without cost and ignoring cooldown and failure chances)
- Lethality: staffs gain a Dexterity damage modifier equal to twice the crit bonus
- Expose Weakness: (if not on cooldown) will be used instantly when casting Shadowstep (before the return teleport), using stamina as usual and going on cooldown for twice the usual duration
- Blade Flurry: (while sustained) also gain spell cooldown reduction equal to the attack speed bonus and an equal chance on spell hit to cast Channel Staff
- Snap: also affect an equal number of spells ("spell/" category talents)

Adds 5 werewolf races to the game!

Copying and pasting the gist of the racial details from the forum post into here for easy visibility.

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Fullmoon
Largely your standard werewolf experience. Big, tough, and angry!
Life Rating: 14
Stats: +3 Str, +2 Dex, +1 Con/Wil, -1 Cun
Exp Penalty: 10%
Racial Abilities:
-Furious Rage: An active to boost their damage output and damage resistance temporarily.
-Unrestrained: A passive for stun/pin/disarm resistance.
-Wild Pelt: Passive damage resistance, even upping the resistance cap slightly, and increased size at higher investment levels!
-Monstrous Leap: An active ability to leap and come down with a crash, dealing damage in an aoe! Also gains a bit of size (and damage) when you do!

Gibbous
Next up, we have some nature themed werewolves! They're even green!
Stats: +3 Wil, +2 Con, +1 Str/Cun, -1 Mag
Life Rating: 13
Exp Penalty: 10%
Racial Abilities:
-Wild Rejuvenation: A regeneration and healmod boost, not just for yourself, but allies too!
-Bestial Vitality: Increased life regen and heal mod! Not much more to it, just big werewuff regen.
-Verdant Pelt: Increase your nature affinity, blight and nature resistance, and reduce the duration of detrimental effects!
-Call the Pack: Exactly what it says on the tin! Call up three wolf friends for a bit to help chow down on your enemies!

Halfmoon
Following that, these werewolves are the more magically inclined of their brethren! Moon and star themes abound.
Life Rating: 9
Stats: +3 Mag, +2 Wil, +1 Dex/Cun, -1 Str
Exp Penalty: 5%
Racial Abilities:
-Lunar Light: Activate to gain a damage shield, and a boost to all affinities for a bit. Soak that damage!
-Lunar Shadow: A passive that pops when you take enough damage in one blow, and then gives you a chance to avoid any further damage.
-Shimmering Pelt: Adaptive damage resistance that can adjust to up to 3 different types of damage at a time.
-Celestial Power: An active ability to enhance your damage output and damage penetration!

Crescent
From there, we go to some psionic fluffy friends!
Life Rating: 12
Stats: +3 Cun, +2 Wil, +1 Str/Con, -1 Dex
Exp Penalty: 8%
Racial Abilities:
-Sharp Focus: Self-buff for increased damage and crit chance!
-Shrouded Mind: Confusion and mind damage resistance, increased mental save, and a short range telepathy of all creatures at higher levels!
-Faded Pelt: Resistance to all damage, and quite a bit of it, but taking damage will eat away at the resists until they're gone!
-Psionic Howl: An aoe howl that sics some mental wolves on your enemies, giving them damage over time, reduced damage dealt, and chance for talent failure!

Newmoon
And last, but not least, the stealthy wolves!
Life Rating: 11
Stats: +3 Dex, +2 Cun, +1 Str/Mag, -1 Con
Exp Penalty: 8%
Racial Abilities:
-Hunter's Agility: Boost global speed for a short time!
-Killer Instincts: Increased crit chance and crit damage.
-Shadow Pelt: Defense, crit avoidance, stealth power, and even some light and dark resistance!
-Through the Shadows: An active ability that gives you an instant, variable range, no-cooldown teleport! However, the range diminishes the further you travel with it, and recovers over time.

Adds Weaver class.

Weaver is a Wilder subclass, a resilient unarmed combatant with emphasis of moving around strategically through their set-up battlefield. Their skill sets revolve around arachnids. Laying webs, injecting enemies with poison, beating enemies with your limbs, creating cocoon for later consumption, and more! Their talents mainly uses equilibrium, have huge equilibrium demand yet heavy hitting, and moderate-long cooldown. Some even needs "special charge" to use. So if you decide to become one of the weaver, make sure to use your talents and resources wisely!

They get access to:
wild-gift: call of the wild (general)
wild-gift: harmony (general) (locked)
technique: combat training (general)
wild-gift: fungus (general)
wild-gift: weaver anatomy (general)
wild-gift: threads and webs (class)
wild-gift: dance of the Weaver (class)
wild-gift: cocoon utilization (Class) (locked)
wild-gift: chitin (class) (locked)
cunning: tactical (class)
cunning: dirty fighting (class) (locked)

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Here are some brief overview of their unique talent categories.

wild-gift: weaver anatomy
Their arachnid nature starts to take shape, modifying their body and giving them the resilience, agility, wisdom, and abilities of a spider.They will even grow spider legs!

wild-gift: threads and webs
As spider would, they grow accustomed in the art of threads and webs. They can trap and disarm their preys, cut them with threads, and eventually encasing them in a cocoon.

wild-gift: dance of the Weaver
These are some of the technique of prey hunting. Begin with an ambush, revel in "the circle of life", hasten their prey to "sleep" with specialized moves, and disable the prey's most annoying sustains!

wild-gift: cocoon utilization
Cocoon is an important resource for the weaver. The liquefied prey inside a cocoon are very nutritious and versatile to use beside hunger filling. The cocoon can nourish the weaver, converted to chemical weapon, and even storing genetic material for backup and cloning.

wild-gift: chitin
The thick and strong chitin exoskeleton of the weaver. This gives the weaver their grit and protection against enemies with various means.

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While surviving as a young weaver may be difficult, an adult weaver can instantly decimate smaller preys and render tougher preys unable to act and succumb to weaver's slyness and voracity.

Post Note: We are highly looking forward for you to become one of the weaver and take part on the hunt for preys!. Please leave reviews, comments, and certainly bug reports! Happy hunting, Weaver!
-shade n bros

Adds the Frost Invoker, a mage subclass.

The Frost Invoker is a Cold-focused caster and unarmed fighter. Their primary stats are Magic and Dexterity.
Frost Invokers know Combat Training and Survival(locked) and have 11 new spell trees, 3 generic and 8 class (of which 3 start locked).

Generic:

Frozen Core: Unarmed training with 40/80 Mag/Dex dam mods, and utility.
Rime Guard: Defense, with a damage shield and one-shot protection.
Ice Floes: Mobility and utility focused on an icy ground effect.

Class:

Hail: Offensive spells which can reduce the cd of Artic talents.
Arctic: Unarmed attacks with AoE, a pin, a multi-hit, and a gap closer.
Winter: Utility and defense, with a decoy and a scout.
Frost: Defense and utility focused on building and consuming a stacking effect.
Chill: Debuffs which proc on cold damage, with active conditional sustain stripping.

Locked:

Blizzard: Defense and debuffs focused on a single AoE spell.
Icicles: Adds a cold-damage psuedo-weapon that procs on unarmed attacks. (high level)
Cryomania: Maical and physical synergy, and cold resist / ice-block penetration sustain. (high level)

Talent icons from https://game-icons.net
Class icon from https://opengameart.org/content/painterly-spell-icons-part-2
Icicles moddable tile attachment from Verdant Pack by HousePet (re-colored); attachment art by Rexocorum.

Quality of Life improvements for resting and auto-exploring.

All credit to improved-restauto & the many authors who actually wrote this.

0.0.1:

 - Tweak Player.lua code to match latest code from upstream
 - Remove Restart Sustains compatibility which really just dropped this Mods entire reason for existing
 - Remove PartyLore which did nothing different than upstream, but lost some functionality
 - Update PlayerExplore from upstream

See "improved-restauto" http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=44401 for orig version

OldRPG Music Mod v3:

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

This mod replaces 99% of the music in the game with original covers of classic RPG scores.
The base game, Ashes, Cults, and Orcs are covered.
If you like this mod, please rate it. If you really like it: https://ko-fi.com/oldrpg :)

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

Explanation for new version:

Once again, Suno has updated, and the 4.5+ model was good enough to re-do the entire soundtrack.
An increase in overall length required a fifth part, and thus, version 3.
You may now change the music in the fortress by speaking with the shadow.

Playable shertul race forked. Original content by Isaacssv552. Future updates intended but heavily limited by my own skill. Sher'tul are powerful magically inclined creatures that cannot use certain items like gloves due to them having tentacles, their incredible potential makes up for this.

Currently adds one evolution, the Tempered Hand.
As a Tempered Hand, the brawler gains these benefits while wearing gauntlets:
The damage bonus of your Striking Stance scales on Strength and scales higher than before.

When you enter combat while all of your talents are off cooldown, you gain 1 combo point.
When you strike an enemy with a melee attack, you have a 30% chance to gain 1 extra combo point, 1 time per turn.
When you kill an enemy, you gain 1 extra combo point, 1 time per turn.
When you land a melee critical, you have a 10% chance to gain 1 extra combo point, 1 time per turn.

When you gain combo points you also gain 15% of a turn per point gained (points that would be gained beyond your limited do not count).

When you would generate combo points beyond your limit, each extra point will increase your maximum number of counter attacks by 1 for 1 turn.

When you spend combo points you will instantly trigger Open Palm Block for the same number of combo points, ignoring cost, cooldown, and failure chance.
When Open Palm Block prevents damage, the source of the damage is Staggered for 2 turns, reducing Def and Phys Save and making them more vulnerable to counter attacks.
If the target is already Staggered, you make a free Counter Attack against them (does not count toward your Counter Attack per turn limit).
Counter Attacks against Staggered opponents will always attempt to stun (even if the opponent is not grappled)
Staggered cannot be saved against; Defense and Save reduction improve with your Physical Power.

OldRPG Music Mod v3:

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

This mod replaces 99% of the music in the game with original covers of classic RPG scores.
The base game, Ashes, Cults, and Orcs are covered.
If you like this mod, please rate it. If you really like it: https://ko-fi.com/oldrpg :)

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

Explanation for new version:

Once again, Suno has updated, and the 4.5+ model was good enough to re-do the entire soundtrack.
An increase in overall length required a fifth part, and thus, version 3.
You may now change the music in the fortress by speaking with the shadow.

Adds a new class evolution for Arcane Blade, the Stoneblade.

Wielded two-handed weapons will use the increased procs damage accuracy bonus
Earthen Missles become bolts (rather than projectiles, causing them to strike instantly and benefit from the increased procs damage acc. bonus)
Mudslide will pull creatures in (instead of knock them back)
Activating Body of Stone will cast Earthquake for free (centered on yourself and ignoring friendly targets)
While Body of Stone is sustained your melee attacks gain range equal to the radius of your Earthquake spell

To unlock the evolution, defeat Harkor'Zun as an Arcane Blade. Learning the Prodigy requires that you know Body of Stone and have at least 25 Magic and Strength.

Adds Thug as a new Human subrace. Thugs have good Constitution and Willpower. Can stand heavy hit and use humanshield.
This subrace is probably overpowered.

Stat modifiers: +2 Constitution and +2 Willpower
Life Rating: 12
Experience Penalty: 10%

Also big thanks to Shad3 for the help.

---Changelog
v1.0.0 Initial release
v1.0.1 fix talent icon not showing
v1.0.2 fix talent requirement mishap and add size to 1st talent

Adds the Android and Addonroid subraces to the Human race.

Androids are machines that closely resemble humans in appearance.
They cannot level up through combat. Instead, they level up by equipping better weapons and armors.

Addonroids are lifeforms born from abandoned addons.
They are fragile, but the more enabled addons they have, the stronger they become.

All new icons were made by https://game-icons.net/ .

Allows you to choose which escorts you will encounter at the start of the game.
You may change the future encounters in the game menu (Esc).

There is an option to choose a random escort in case you just wanted to guarantee some unlocks before continuing with the base game's behavior.

Note: You're only supposed to be able to choose the lost tinker once. (Must have the Embers of Rage DLC and unlocked by playing in the Orcs campaign)
Note: Unfortunately the only time that addons can get the possible escort types is after the random escort quest is assigned.
This means escorts added by other addons will not be available for selection, but will still be possible to find using the random selection.

To reach me faster, please leave a message on the Steam Workshop page. I don't get notifications on te4.org so I may take longer to reply.

Adds Outlander as a playable human subrace, he has VERY UNIQUE talents.
T1: learn skills from killed enemies with the cost of some exp.
T2: better chance to get egos on random items.
T3: control an enemy by paying money.
T4: boost player's rank.

v1.0.10: now it costs 100% - 20% current xp if you want to learn a talent from an enemy.

This mod is designed to complete the game at the highest difficulty level. The mod does not affect the game experience of battles with monsters, it only adds the opportunity to become stronger for money. Every merchant in the world offers the player to learn new talent mastery, undergo special training, or create powerful artifacts. Each trader has their own requirements for the level of the player and pricing policy.

Features of Artworld (v2.0)

Talents manipulation:
— Player can learn new talent masteries. 200 masteries from the original game are available. Talents from FC, EoR, AoUR add-ons are not supported.
— Player can increase the efficiency modifier of any mastery. The upper limit is 5.0.
— Player can forget all the talents of a certain mastery and restore all skill points spent. Some kind of respec.
— Player can sell the mastery he doesn't need. It will disappear from the list of available on the leveling screen, its level will be reset to 1.0. It's an easy way to get money without having to fight monsters directly. I strongly recommend it to your best try.

Special training:
— Player can upgrade their resources: Life/Stamina/Mana/Psi/Soul/Vim/Hate/Light/Dark. Training can be both limited in the number of times and endless.
— Player can convert one type of resource to another. For example, mana into life or souls into non-life (negative health). These workouts can be completed a limited number of times, and in general, you should not rely on them.
— Player can upgrade his primary stats: Strength/Dexterity/Constitution/Magic/Willpower/Cunning. All such trainings are limited: 3-5 times and you need to look for a new master.
— Player can gain new knowledge: additional talent points, categories or prodigies. A fully developed character is beautiful!

Artifactors:
— There are masters in the world who can modify items. They can work with 30 types of items, almost everything in the game. Every 2 levels, at least one level becomes available to the player.
— Player can insert an unlimited number of gem into any item. Each next gem increases the price of the work. The total price depends on the tier of the original item.
— Player can extract any (well, almost) magical property from an item by creating a shard of power. The shard can then be inserted into another item like a normal gem. By combining magical properties in this way, you can create very powerful artifacts. This is the best mod mechanic, but it requires a huge amount of gold.

Travel in world:
— Player can gain access to locations not provided for by the quest/class. In version 2, Point Zero(city of temporal warden) and island of Yrkkk became available. See the full travel map in the mod archive.
— Player receives a special item "Trade Notes" on the first conversation with any merchant. Notes automatically record all prices seen by the player. You no longer need to remember everything yourself, just read the notes.
— Player can enchant a transmutation chest for money before reaching the fortress of Sher-Tul. More money is always good.
— Player can find out the cost statistics when working with gem and shards.

Other:
— Supports russian language if ru-mod is installed (https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/ru_RU ). The basic language of the mod is runglish (very bad english).

Changes in Artworld I (v2.1)

— A lot of minor changes: added lost properties for shards, fixed the price formula for primary stats, fix negative greed of some merchants, fixed a bug with the scrollbar in notes, added lost ru-locale strings, and something else..
— Added support for the "Adventuring Party" mod (https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/adventure_party ). Now all party members (including the alchemist's golem) work correctly with merchants, and can become as strong as the player's main character.
— List of all talents that can be found at merchants has been added to the mod archive.

Features of Infinite world (v3.0)
This release contains all Artworld features, several new features and a balance change.

New features:
— Player can increase maximum level of a single talent! Some merchants sell "Tomes of Power", which can be read to raise level of talent stated in the book. Player must have trade mastery above 20 to be allowed into the bookstore. About 10% of books are created based on player's current talents, i.e. books may contain talents from other official addons and custom mods. Bookstores update several books once a game week approximately.
— Player can enchant an item with talent of their choice. Arterfactors give following recipe: item + "Tome of Power" with wonted talent = an item with property "Granted talent +1 lvl" and property "+1 talent cooldown". This recipe can be repeated several times to gain additional talent levels. Player, wearing such an item, learns the talent instantly and can use it as his own. A single item cannot grant more than 3 different talents.
— Player can rename items. You can use colors (named or in hexcodes) in names. Rename dialog correctly supports unicode strings (tested only in russian lang, but should work with other languages with multibyte characters).
— Player can break level cap in the "Maj'Eyal: The Age of Ascendancy" campaign. Levels will continue to increase after level 50, but they will not be awarded stat/talent points. This option is made specifically to replace the minor mod "Ascendancy Level Cap Remover" (https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/ascendancy_lvl_cap_remover ) and other like this.
— Added support for the "Endless Dungeon" game mode. Every 5-8 floors player will find portals to spectral versions of random Maj'Eyal town. Merchants in these towns work in same way as in main campaign. In towns Elvala and Gates of Morning there is access to item vault.

Changes:
— Resource conversion training is now running indefinitely, but a price progression has been added. Now you can completely drain the unnecessary resources in health.
— Shards and gemstones have their own price when imbue. The price is based on actual properties, which allowed the balance of shards and gems to be evened out.
— Imbue shards/gems adds primary stat requirements to the item. There is a progression: +2 rnd. primary stats for first 10 gems, +3 rnd. primary stats for next 10 gems, etc. (but not more than +5 to the stat). After 40-50 gems built into item, it is very difficult to use it due to the inflated requirements. But on every 100th gem all the requirements are discarded and begin to accumulate again.
— Imbue shards/gems removes level requirements of the item. This is easy way to use an item taken from item vault early.
— World map has been updated (see in mod-arhive). Added info about bookstores and the relative probabilities of various workouts.

Compatibility notes:
— Mod redefines all dialogues of merchants in all towns of the world. Other mods that do the same thing can be broken, but losing a few dialogues doesn't break this mod.
— Mod adds objects to global map at fixed coordinates without checking correctness of tile.
— Mod changes names of items. Scripts that try to find an item by name can break.
— Mod overrides the level progression function (no_points_on_levelup) when it removes level limit. Other mods that provide their own "no_points_on_levelup" feature may fly off.
— Weight of mod is 100.
That's all for the list of possible compatibility issues!

What's next? Nothing. This is the last release of the mod. I've done everything I wanted and now I'm going into sunset. Bye-bye :)

OldRPG Music Mod v3:

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

This mod replaces 99% of the music in the game with original covers of classic RPG scores.
The base game, Ashes, Cults, and Orcs are covered.
If you like this mod, please rate it. If you really like it: https://ko-fi.com/oldrpg :)

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

Explanation for new version:

Once again, Suno has updated, and the 4.5+ model was good enough to re-do the entire soundtrack.
An increase in overall length required a fifth part, and thus, version 3.
You may now change the music in the fortress by speaking with the shadow.

Adds a variety of random youkai that have weird and/or stupid quirks, generally pertaining to equipment slots.
Takonyudo (octopode): namesake of the addon. Start with poison unlocked. 4 weapon and 4 offhands, 8 rings, and no armor except helmet.
Oboroguruma (oxcart): equip any weapon, armor, or jewelry you like, but the total quantity of items you can equip is limited by level.
Chopirako (house spirit): all chance based events succeed every time.
Iwanabozu (fish monk): high life rating. Cannot deal or take more than 1% of its life per hit, which is relaxed as you deal or take more damage.
Mekurabe (pile of skulls): 16 head slots and no other armor. Roll around stealthily as a bunch of heads, then assemble yourself to frighten anyone you stare at.
Kyorinrin (sentient scroll): no armor slots. Gain stats and extra talent levels by picking up lore pieces depending on how long the lore scrap was.
Aoandon (lantern spirit): no armor slots. Tell ghost stories to reduce power and saves, then manifest in a flash of terror.

Various enhancements to escort quest NPCs:
- Escorts now follow the player when not close to the portal.
- Escorts occasionally say useful things.
- Escorts heal 5% of their maximum health per turn.

Yet another rework of the OldRPG tileset. Compatible with Orcs, Cults, and Ashes. Both parts are required.

This addon is a fork of the Beholder (Eye Fix) (https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/beholder-efix), which was a fork of Beholder (Continuation) (https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/beholder-cont), which was a fork of Beholder race/classes (https://te4.org/games/addons/tome/beholder-raceclasses). It's been over a year since Beholder (Eye Fix) was updated last and it's been broken for a while, so here is the third fork.

Adds Beholders as a playable race and the Mage Eye as a Beholder only class.

Nekarcos's Quality of Life 07: Visible Size Categories addon is recommended in conjunction with beholders because it's fun to see their size change as they grow.

https://github.com/Werekracken/tome-wkbeholder

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Beholder race

Beholders resemble floating orbs of flesh with large mouths, a single central eye, and lots of smaller eyestalks on top with deadly magical powers. Instead of gaining category points as they level, they must absorb energy from arcane items to grow. They cannot wear most equipment, but have lots of tentacles and eyes.

-2 Strength, +2 Dexterity, +0 Constitution, +3 Magic, +4 Willpower, +2 Cunning

+ 10% Lightning, Fire, and Cold resist

-20% movement speed

Race trees

- race/beholder: Basic abilities common to all Beholders.
- technique/tentacle-combat: Strike nearby foes with your tentacles.

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Mage Eye class

Mage eyes focus on harnessing the powers of their eyestalks.

+ 6 Magic, +3 Willpower

Generic trees

- spell/aegis
- spell/divination
- spell/conveyance
- cunning/survival (locked)
- technique/tentacle-combat: Strike nearby foes with your tentacles

Class trees

- spell/phantasm (locked)
- spell/meta
- spell/fire-eye: Flame eye abilities
- spell/frost-eye: Frost eye abilities
- spell/lightning-eye: Lightning eye abilities
- spell/central-eye: Central eye anti-magic abilities
- spell/tri-beam (locked): Refocus your central eye's energies. You must reach the 3rd beholder growth stage to be able to learn this talent tree.
- spell/death-eye (locked): Death eye abilities. You must reach the 5th beholder growth stage to be able to learn this talent tree.

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Changelog
- v1.0.0 Took out some logic around redefining some AI rules for talent usage because it was breaking this from loading and breaking other add ons as well. Made Temporal Gaze thralls so that you can't switch and control them because that was causing errors too.
- v1.0.1 Fixed an issue that caused bump attacks to error in conjunction with other addons.
- v1.0.2 Fix Channel Mastery to correctly randomly use known masteries. Add sounds for Frost Laser and Lightning Laser.
- v1.0.3 Make Beholder playable in Embers of Rage.
- v1.0.4 Make all classes (except wilders) available to the Beholder race. Make beholders levitate by default instead of at stage 5 growth. Changed them from starting with 10 infravision to getting +2 infravision for each growth stage.
- v1.7.3 Bumping version number to fix the fact that tome version and addon version got switched up.
- v1.7.4 Change Temporal Gaze to not kill the target when it's over and to not follow you around. Reduce cooldown and duration of Temporal Gaze. Fix talent cooldown reduction while beholder addon is active (like with Windtouched Speed).
- v1.7.5 Make the Beholder cosmetic size changes into actual size changes as well. Add handling of Nekarcos's Quality of Life 07: Visible Size Categories addon. Fix instant graphic update on size changes.
- v1.7.6 Update all beholder character models with new art from Rexocorum! Increase the amount of points it takes to grow for stages 3/4/5 and update the Beholder race quest information in the quest log. Take out display size changing with growth because Nekarcos's Quality of Life 07: Visible Size Categories addon does a much better job of that. Add display of equipment for the Beholder and it's cloaked human model (but not at the character creation menu because of reasons.) Fix issue where growing while Cloaked made your character tile disappear. Take out chance for unique gems and rings on birth. Add quiver slot back in because some classes need it.
- v1.7.7 Fix starting rings. Improve quest information about growth. Fix alchemist golem tile.
- v1.7.8 Add a ring slot to replace the one lost by the quiver.
- v1.7.9 Re-fix beholder tile update on growth. When you change faction via your Cloak ability, the faction of your summons change with it. Take out T_ARMOUR_TRAINING = 2 from Beholder race definition, that should be class based.
- v1.7.10 Normalize talent levels (.0 or .3).
- v1.7.11 Fix Absorb Magic so you can only drain items whose material level is equal or higher than your growth stage (it wasn't being applied to unique and rare items).
- v1.7.12 Fix the Draining Gaze map effect so you can see the area of effect of your gaze.
- v1.7.13 Take the innate Use Tentacles off of non-Mage Eye Beholders and give them Tentacle Combat generic tree unlocked at 1.0 mastery (to help make up for not being able to wear most gear), and make Channel Mastery useful for classes other than Mage Eye. Fix error when trying to unlearn Tentacle Mastery. Add some base game spell talent trees to Mage Eye to keep up with the times (more options). Fix log lines for Manadrain Gaze effect damage. Add class icons from Rexocorum for Mage Eye.
- v1.7.14 Fix for compatibility with Zizzo's Passive Cooldowns.
- v1.7.15 Make Absorb Magic and Beholder's Cloak of Deception not unlearnable so that if auto-assign at birth is disabled new chars will still get them.
- v1.7.16 Fix faction when playing Recaiden's Demons campaign. Remove cooldown on Absorb Magic.

Adds the Viper class, an archer wilder who possesses great speed and access to nature damage.

Adds the White Monk, a warrior subclass.

The White Monk wields no arms, instead using intense focus and training to turn their body into a weapon. They fend off enemy blows with their immense willpower and can preform healing and regenerative rites. Primary stats are Dexterity and Willpower. White Monks have the unique ability to project unarmed melee attacks at a distance, with talents that allow them to strike many targets in a area, as well. White Monks have a base damage modifier for hand gear of 60% Dex and 60% Wil, and gain some of the same benefits to unarmed attacks as Brawlers.

Includes seven new talent trees and incorporates a few existing trees from Warrior and Rogue classes.

Rending - Attack your foes from afar and sap their energy.

Mending - Heal and cleanse yourself and even prepare a rite that can ward off death itself.

Fending (generic) - Ward off enemy assaults, directing some damage to your stamina pool.

Agile Combatant - Move across the battlefield with unmatched agility.

Martial Arts - Master the art of unarmed fighting and gain bonus strikes from your attacks.

Black Belt (locked) - Learn advanced fighting techniques to cripple your foes and react with finely honed reflexes.

Transcending(locked) - Directly manipulate your foes' spirits to sap their energy and learn to project your spirit to assail all nearby foes.

Follow one of the Six Ways with a set of class evolutions for the White Monk:

Way of the Rushing Bull

Way of the Flying Arrow

Way of the Open Palm

Way of the Arcane Flow

Way of the Transcendent Spirit

Way of the Hidden Viper

Full details in the forum thread.

Allow trial and error for character building without restarting new game while minimizing inbalance.

You can respec stats, talents, categories and prodigies freely at any time.
You cannot respec prodigies that cannot be learned with Writhing Ring of the Hunter.

Based on Full Respecialization. Fix the bug for prodigies learning introduced v1.7.

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Yakri:
I wasn't stoked about the inability to respec starting categories, as I'm a huge weirdo who likes to
unspec things I don't like and mastery boost other categories.

This version buffs the mastery increase from 0.2 to 0.4 as well.

This is rolled in because mastery boosting is incompatible with category respec mods.

I am not the original mod creator, I just updated the update youhei created based on Full Respecialization by Time to Die

Weight: 100

Superload:
- mod/dialogs/LevelupDialog.lua:incStat() to respec stats.
- mod/dialogs/LevelupDialog.lua:isUnlearnable() to respec talents.
- mod/dialogs/LevelupDialog.lua:learnType() to respec categories.
- mod/dialogs/LevelupDialog.lua:init() to recognize respecing prodigies.
- mod/dialogs/UberTalent.lua:init(), use() to respec prodigies.
- mod/dialogs/UberTalent.lua:getTalentDesc() to show which prodigies cannot respec.

Allows the player to pick two classes, but the difficulty scales upward. (Original by StarKeep, modded by Raenarill).
You advance twice as fast, and gain two thirds more talent points. You also gain six talent category points: at 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60.
After level 66, you gain one class talent point per level and one generic every two out of three levels.

In order to activate this addon, look at your Game Options for a new tab.

Adds an Artificer class to the game.
Artificer is a versatile class that specialize in items.
They are able to craft items and use them in ways that other classes cannot.

Beware: Although powerful later on, artificers have a weak early game, and require a good deal of item management to succeed. This class may not be for everyone.

Requires Embers of Rage DLC

Adds the Spellweaver, a Mage subclass who creates custom spells with Spellweaving components.
For example, a Spellweaver might make a spell using the Fire element, the Beam shape, and the Damage Over Time effect to make a simple Damage over Time Fire Beam. However, spells can get vastly more complicated, with things like a "Grand Checkerboard of Eclipsing and Feverish Wallweaving and Prismatic and Radiat Lingering Harm" if you want to be way over the top.
Additionally, Spellweavers can make shielding and teleportation spells with components too, although all three types of spells use the same slots.
Spellweavers who are Humans, Elves, Dwarves or Undeads will also begin in Wovenhome in the East and have a special dungeon to start the game.

Note: If you need to make a bug report, please use the forum thread: https://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=53519
I will not reliably respond to any messages here in any reasonable amount of time. The ToME Discord is also a good method.

Allows you to toggle which classes can or cannot appear on random bosses and rares.

Adds two races, one class, a new town, and a new low level dungeon. Completing a quest to explore the new dungeon unlocks purchasable perks in the town. This quest is the starting quest for the added races, but anyone can access an alternate version of the quest with the same rewards. Look toward the coast east of Last Hope to get started.

Available perks (cost varies):
Reveal Exotic Weapons Mastery (must already know Combat Training; Combat Training can also be purchased as per Last Hope shops).

Gain the ability to invest in Heavy Armour Training and equip mail(heavy) armor by meeting the requirement with the highest of Constitution and Dexterity (or Strength, as usual).

Gain bonus attack and movement speeds and a chance to evade incoming damage while wearing mail(heavy) armor. These values scale with Dex and Con, respectively.

Learn (locked or unlocked) a new Psionic/Mindstar combat talent tree. Similar to Wild-Gift/Mindstar mastery, this tree also has a Psiblades sustain. Once learned, you can also pay to boost mastery (as with Mindstar mastery from Zigur).

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Psionic/Mindstar combat:

Psiblades:
Increases damage and physical power when attacking with Mindstars. When sustained, increases the damage modifiers and mind stats granted by equipped mindstars (this is an exact copy of the wild-gift/mindstar mastery psiblades talent).

Mind Thorns:
Instantly touch the mind of an adjacent foe, creating mental thorns which reduce mind save and deal mind damage each turn for a few turns.

Mind Storm:
Create a storm of psionic energy which lasts for a few turns. The storm will overheat the mind of foes in the area, causing them to burn (stacking). Allies in the area will be obscured by illusions, reducing the bonus damage of critical hits dealt to them.

Psionic Balance:
Attack an adjacent enemy with your mainhand Psiblade and channel the energy through your offhand to create a psionic damage shield around an ally or yourself. The power of the shield is based on the damage of the attack and can be a mental critical. The shielded target will also regain an amount of Psi based on the damage of the attack.

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Races:

The Naloren are elven race with an affinity for water who are adept with mail armor, whips and tridents. They are also known for their bountiful spirit and superb flexibility.
Talents:

Spirit of the Tides:
Gain X charges of Surging Spirit for 5 turns. Charges will be consumed as you activate talents to reduce their cooldown by one turn per charge.

Spirited Combat:
Gain X% armor hardiness in all types of armor and a Y% Constitution damage modifier for all weapons.

Cleansing Water:
When you are afflicted with a detrimental effect you have a X% chance to create a 1-tile pool of Cleansing Water within 2 tiles of yourself. Moving into Cleansing Water will consume it to cleanse the detrimental effect with the highest duration currently afflicting you. This has a cooldown (3).

Whitewater:
Call on the surging tides to aid you, creating radius X pool of rushing water lasting for 6 turns. Moving within Whitewater is instant for you. Foes will have a 50% chance with each movement within Whitewater to flounder, draining 50% of a turn and leaving them Dazed for 1 turn.

Stats:

+ 4 Con, +4 Dex, -1 Cun, -1 Str, -1 Mag, +10 life rating, 10% increased global speed, 15% xp penalty.

The Freeks are a tribe of Yeeks who broke free from The Way. They are still strong psionics, but their minds have been irreparably shattered.
Talents:

Unbound Mind:
Remove up to X silence and confusion effects from yourself and increase your silence and confusion immunities by 100% for a few turns. When activated, all foes in range 8 are afflicted with Shattered Mind for the same duration, giving them a chance each turn to become dazed or confused(35%) for 2 turns.

Partition:
Increases resistance to all damage and decreases the duration of negative effects.

Hasty:
Gain a passive mind speed bonus. If you are afflicted by 4 or more negative effects, the passive speed bonus will temporarily be doubled and any actions (attacks, spells, movement, etc) will use your mind speed if it is faster than the usual speed.

Schism:
Create up to 3 illusions of yourself adjacent to foes within range 10 that will taunt enemies for a few turns.

Stats:
-2 Con, +0 Dex, +3 Cun, +0 Str, +1 Mag, +3 Wil, +9 life rating, -10% xp 'penalty', -15% confusion immunity.

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Added a new Psionic subclass: the Psion.
Psions are mindpowered ranged casters who prefer to wield 3 mindstars.
Psions know many of the same talents as Mindslayers, but enhance and adapt them to their own purposes.

Talents:
Absorption
Focus
Projection
Voracity
Psi-Casting(new)
Psionic Striking(new)
Kinetic Mastery
Thermal Mastery
Charged Mastery

Survival
Augmented Mobility
Finer Energy Manipulations

Psi-Casting

Telekinetic Crush:

 Deal physical damage and stun. Active Aura damage is added to the attack at 3 times the usual power.

Stimulation:
Increase Con based on combined Wil and Cun.

Guiding Star:
Target a foe and disrupt their next talent with a blast of physical damage. At level 3+ adds confuses. At 5+ has a passive chance to block damage over a threshold, blast the source, and disrupt the source talent.

Puncture:
Deal physical damage with added bleeding damage. At level 3+ has a chance to disrupt temporary buffs on the target. Direct damage bypasses ice blocks.

Psionic Striking

Kinetic Blast:

 Deal physical damage and pin. Frozen targets take extra damage and both hits bypass the ice block.

Thermal Blast:
Deal fire damage and cold damage and freeze. If target is pinned, pull in nearby enemies and freeze them to the ground for a few turns.

Charged Blast:
Deal lightning damage and shock (reduce stun/pin resist by half). If target is pinned, boost Charge Shield value. If target is frozen, push nearby enemies away from you.

Psi Weaving:
Increased Fire, Cold and Lightning damage and res pen. Also applies to physical, but at half the value.

Altered Talents
Beyond the Flesh:
TK mindstars now project a blast of damage instead of pulling enemies. Chance, range and damage scale with mindstar tier (damage also scales on Mindpower). Active Aura damage is added to the blast at 2 times the usual power.

Quick as Thought:
Also increases mental crit chance.

Mindhook:
Can also target a wall to pull yourself.

Resonant Focus:
TK mindstars have increased chance to blast and also increase the radius of Voracity talents and the range non-melee mind powers.

Frenzied Focus:
TK mindstars attempt to blast all foes in range and Aura damage is added at 4 times the usual power.

Transcendent Telekinesis:
Resets Kinetic Blast, Telekinetic Crush and Puncture. Converts all damage to Physical while in effect. Kinetic Blast will also strike two random foes adjacent to the target.

Transcendent Electrokinesis:
Resets Charged Blast, Telekinetic Crush and Puncture. Converts all damage to Lightning while in effect. Charged Blast will also chain to 3 nearby enemies.

Static Net:
Static Charge is released with your next Telekinetic Crush or Charged Blast.

Transcendent Pyrokinesis:
Resets Thermal Blast, Telekinetic Crush and Puncture. Converts all damage to Fire or Cold (based on your increased damage) while in effect. Thermal Blast cold/freeze will hit in a radius 1 ball.

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Full details in the forum: http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=45418&p=208951#p208951.

OldRPG Music Mod v3:

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

This mod replaces 99% of the music in the game with original covers of classic RPG scores.
The base game, Ashes, Cults, and Orcs are covered.
If you like this mod, please rate it. If you really like it: https://ko-fi.com/oldrpg :)

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

Explanation for new version:

Once again, Suno has updated, and the 4.5+ model was good enough to re-do the entire soundtrack.
An increase in overall length required a fifth part, and thus, version 3.
You may now change the music in the fortress by speaking with the shadow.

Combines several smaller utility addons, both for convenience and potentially reduced resource usage on smaller machines.

Includes the following addons:

• Notes to Self
• Timed Rest
• Talent Point Planner
• Opt-in Adventurers Parties
• Inventory Show All Tabs By Default (thru v12d)
• Tier-1 Short Circuit Option
• "Save" Talent/Stat Points
• Use Item Shortcuts (as of v5)
• Auto-Transmo Gems (as of v5)
• Online Indicator (v6a thru v13d.3)
• Inventory Sort Order (as of v7)
• Store Wish List (as of v8)
• Inventory Keys (as of v8)
• Alternate Zones Option (as of v10)
• Go to Landmark (as of v11)
• Enhanced Object Compare (as of v12)
• Enhanced Wield Replace (as of v14)
• Pragmatic Heroism (as of v14b)
• Prodigious Progress (as of v14c)
• Savefile Notes (as of v15)
• Item Notes (as of v15)
• Passive Cooldowns (as of v15)
• Low Health Popup (as of v15)
• Restart Sustains (as of v15)
• Effects Under Actors (as of v16)
• Juggle Hotkeys on Unwield (as of v16)
• Longer Character Names (as of v16)
• Das BLinkenlights (as of v16)
• Wall Clock (as of v16)
• Curse Levels (as of v17)
• Displacement Tracking (as of v17)
• Examine Floor Stack (as of v17)
• Verbose Crystal Resonance (as of v17)
• Golem Gender (as of v17)
• Self-Portrait Over Grass (as of v17)
• Semi-Roguelike Mode (as of v17)
• Menu Keys (as of v17)
• Reflected Golem (as of v17)
• Roguelike Keybindings (as of v17)
• Tooltip Cleanup (as of v17)
• Time Shield Tracking (as of v17)
• Alchemist Notifications (as of v17)
• Don't Summon While Meditating (as of v17)
• Herald of the Herald (as of v17)
• Roguelike Chat Guard (as of v17)
• Sword-n-Boardin' (as of v17)
• Plot Disarming (as of v17)

A superset of ZOmnibus Lite.

Frequently Asked Questions:

• What's the difference between ZOmnibus and ZOmnibus Lite? Can I use them both together?
• What game options does ZOmnibus provide to configure its behavior? (updated for v16)

License note: This addon uses images (or modified versions thereof) from Game-icons.net, pursuant to the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license. In particular, we use images from the following authors:

• Delapouite
• Lorc

Yet another rework of the OldRPG tileset. Compatible with Orcs, Cults, and Ashes. Both parts are required.

Adds new class Explorer, an Adventurer subclass mostly identical to Wanderers. At character creation, you will be shown a dialog listing the random class and generic talent trees that you will receive over the course of the game and allowing you to choose the order in which you wish to recieve them (at the usual levels for Wanderers).

[License note: This addon uses modified versions of an image by Viscious Speed from Game-icons.net, pursuant to the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license.]

The Sher'tul wiped out all the gods. All the gods of Eyal in any case, and only the ones that mattered, and not the ones that escapes, and some of them left fragments, and even then there are so many excpetions. Your are a minor god, either from beyond Eyal, or missed by the purge. Beneath the notice of the godkillers. But the Sher'tul are gone, and compared to the mortals you stand well above.

This is a continuation of Godling which I published previously and contains the Engineered from that.

The three races are:

Engineered: a made godlike entity, grows with level (grows: Stats/resources/speed)

Lost god: a fallen god from before the godhunt, can spend gold to 'spread faith' gaining abilities (stats/resources/speed/durability/resistances)

True Demon: Inspiration for Malrokian modifications. Able to manipulate souls they have captured. Grows with time and kills (stats/resources/speed/durability/affinities)

Todo: True demons are supposed to use a dialog to select which 'garden' your using your souls in. True demons should either be using addtemporary for stat gains, or I need to create a superload, as the existing method of pushing an absolute difference is considered 'not best practice' (due to the need to recalculate where stats are applied).

Donators/Buyers bonus!

v1.0.0
Use CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-L to recreate your current character.

You can choose to regenerate the current character at the beginning, or to go back to the character generation screen and create a new one.

Fixes a bug with infinite dungeon challenges caused by clones/summons

OldRPG Music Mod v3:

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

This mod replaces 99% of the music in the game with original covers of classic RPG scores.
The base game, Ashes, Cults, and Orcs are covered.
If you like this mod, please rate it. If you really like it: https://ko-fi.com/oldrpg :)

• ALL FIVE PARTS ARE REQUIRED**

Explanation for new version:

Once again, Suno has updated, and the 4.5+ model was good enough to re-do the entire soundtrack.
An increase in overall length required a fifth part, and thus, version 3.
You may now change the music in the fortress by speaking with the shadow.

This is a compilation of my undead race addons. This will always be the most up-to-date version.
Banshee
Silence and confuse enemies.
Drift through walls.
Cut away healing.
Banshees begin in a small starting zone of their own.
Banshees are unlocked if you have unlocked any other undead.

Mummy
Embalming increases Strength and Willpower
Entangle wraps up an enemy, slowing them, with a low cooldown.
Inevitability wears away at the resistances of your enemies as your own resistances mount.
Uniquely, they have a small secondary racial tree that removes detrimental effects.
Mummies begin in their own starter zone, a low-level dungeon reminiscent of both the Blighted Scar and the Elven Ruins.
Mummies are initially locked, and unlock by defeating the Mummy Lord

Wight
Blast enemies with elemental power.
Ignore attacks with your ghostly nature.
Unerringly seek out enemies, even behind walls
Wights begin in a tiny starting zone of their own.
Wights are unlocked by completing the ancient battleground event.

And adds a new prodigy for any undead: Dreadmaster

Chinese translation by gooder1029

Adds two class evolutions for Archer, the Quickshot and the Munitions Expert.

As a Quickshot, the Archer gains the ability to equip a second quiver/pouch in the tool slot and has a 50% chance on archery hit to trigger a shot using ammo from your tool slot.

As a Munitions Expert, the Archer gains the Munitions talent tree unlocked at 1.3 mastery. Provides three munitions sustains to enhance your shots with fire, poison, or piercing capabilities.

Makes alchemists focus on creating elixirs that you are not currently helping them with.
In the base game, when you hand in ingredients to an alchemist, another alchemist completes one of his remaining elixirs at random.
What this addon does is remove the elixir that you are already helping them with from the possible elixirs to be chosen unless it is their last elixir.

Forgo arms to ravage your foes with fist and claw.
While unarmed, you gain all the weapon/shield bonuses of Surge, Cleave, and Repel.
Surge, Cleave, and Repel are no longer mutually exclusive while you are unarmed and will not put the other talents on cooldown when activated. If you equip a weapon while any of these are active, they will deactivate.
Attacks which would strike with a mainhand weapon or shield will use your unarmed stats for the weapon and/or shield attack.
Weapons Mastery will apply to unarmed combat and Willpower will be used in place of Dexterity as a damage modifier for gloves and gauntlets.
You learn the Grappling talent tree, unlocked at 1.3 mastery. Stamina cost for these talents is converted to Hate (at a ratio of 4:1).

Adds Harvester class as a wilder subclass.
Hervesters are adept of life and death. They use both Vim and Equilibrium resources.
They believe that blight power can be harmonised with Eyal and they are exploring ways to control it.

Class talents:
- Corruption/Turn to Undead: Turns your enemies to undead.
- Corruption/Living Flesh (locked): Creates oozes from your enemies' flesh.
- Wild-Gift/Lifeforce: Heals you in excess of your maximum life and damages undeads at once.
- Wild-Gift/Harvest: Melee combat talents with your staff.
- Wild-Gift/Seeds: Implants seeds to your enemies and weakens.
- Corruption/Sanguisuge
- Corruption/Blood (locked)

Generic talents:
- Corruption/Eyal's New Law: Controls Vim and Equilibrium
- Technique/Combat Training
- Cunning/Survival
- Corruption/Vile Life (locked)
- Wild-Gift/Call of the Wild
- Wild-Gift/Harmony (locked)
- Wild-Gift/Fungus (locked)

All icons were made by https://game-icons.net/ .

My personal twist on and combination of "TLR's Stat changes" by thelastraven, "Moderately Generous Levels" by Chaotic Heretic, and "Constitution Viability Buff" by Raenarill.

We're pretty far down the rabbit hole of modding other modders mods here.

I decided to make yet another variant here because I wanted a power up to some underwhelming builds
that I've been running lately with a focus on constitution, too many different stats at once, or I
really just want to force one category to the moon for the theme I want.

However, this mod went much too far for my liking in terms of generic power boost, so I'm releasing my own version which mainly has changes
stripped out and nerfed from TLR's version in such a way as to create yet another unique variant.

Leveling changes:
Sets max level to 100, though you still get the bonus points at 50. Birth stats remain unchanged.

Level 2 is a "double" level, granting double the normal points (6 stat, 2 class/generic points)
Extra stat point every fourth level, starting at level 4.
Extra class point every sixth level, starting at level 6.
Gets rid of the extra class point and removal of a generic point at level intervals of 5.
One category point at levels 10, 15, 20, 25, 35, 50, 75, and 100. Removed point at 34.
Two prodigies at level 25, and then one at 50, 75, and 100. Removed prodigy at 42.

Constitution changes:
Max life per point increased from 4 to 5.
Added 0.05 life regen/turn per point.
Added 0.5 Stamina per point.

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I just tweaked some values, all credit goes to TLR, Chaotic Heretic, and Raenarill.

Adds leprechauns as a new race. They are especially lucky and cunning magical halflings.

Stat modifiers: -3 Strength, +3 Magic, +3 Cunning, and +10 Luck

Racial talent tree:
Luck of the Leprechaun - Activate to increase your critical strike chance, defense, and defense against projectiles for a limited time.
Pot o' Gold - Passively increase Physical, Mental and Spell Saves based on the amount of gold you possess.
Lucky by Design - Passively increase confusion resistance and improves the contribution of primary stats on infusions and runes. At level 5 you are instantly granted a new inscription slot without needing to spend a category point.
Too Clever by Half - Activate to remove detrimental effects and heal yourself.

https://github.com/Werekracken/tome-leprechaun

Changelog
- v1.0.0 Initial release
- v1.0.1 Playtest balance tweaks. Flipped crit chance and defense on Luck of the Leprechaun. Nerfed healing on Too Clever.
- v1.0.2 Remove the exp penalty because they are not OP.

Adds a new evolution for Marauders, the Walking Armory.

Throw caution (and your equipment) to the wind, and become a truly formidable menace on the battlefield.

You can equip mainhand weapons in your tool and lite slot. You can equip offhand weapons in your head, cloak, belt and feet slots.

When you land an attack with the weapon in your mainhand slot, you will follow up with an attack from weapons in your tool and lite slots dealing 100% damage.

When you land an attack with the weapon in your offhand slot, you will follow up with an attack from weapons in your head, cloak, belt and feet slots dealing 100% damage (offhand damage penalty applies).

Adds wrathwrought as a new subrace. They are psionic focused humans.

Stat modifiers: +2 Strength, +1 Dexterity, +0 Constitution, +0 Magic, +4 Willpower, and +3 Cunning.

Life Rating: 12

Experience Penalty: 10%

Racial talent tree:
Wrath Forged - Passively increases your health, stamina, hate and psi regeneration.

Unstoppable Wrath - Passively increases immunities to stun, confusion, pin, fear, silence.

The Savvy Fighter - Passively increases critical chance, critical power, Armor Penetration and Accuracy.

Faster Stronger Better - Passively increases Global speed, Physical speed, movement speed and all damage done.

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v1.0.0
Initial release

 Adds the Sholtar as a playable Human subrace.

Sholtar have no racial talents of their own; instead, the four slots can be used to learn talents from defeated enemies (of a high enough rank). In this manner, the Sholtar can improve nearly any class by adding abilities from other calsses, or even talents that are normally exclusive to NPCs.
Sholtar are not quite as powerful as other humans, recieving -3 points to all stats and a life rating of 8. They are exceptionally thorough in their studying and gain an extra generic and class talent point every 6 levels. This thoroughness, unfortunately, also leads to a 50% experience penalty. Original by nsrr and keevan, forked and nerfed into oblivion by mannendake, with adjustments for insane since monsters sometimes have dozens of levels in a talent. Forked and unnerfed a bit by Ciderdown so it could be used in lower difficulties where the exp penalty hurts so much more. In exchange for a lower exp penalty, a confusion resist penalty has been added. Forked for my personal use. Credit for the work on this addon and modifications to it goes to those before me.

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The Sholtar were once a great nation, with many vasts cities in the southeastern regions of Maj'Eyal. In spite of the harsh, dry terrain they inhabited, or perhaps because of it, they were a people of great ingenuity and adaptability.
The Cataclysm which tore the world apart centuries ago swept nearly all of the Sholtar lands into the murky depths, and all but erased their people from the face of Eyal.
While very few survived, those who did fought for survival with all of the wit and grit that was their birthright. An already adaptable people grew to become even more adaptable through neccessity, and it has become their greatest strength.
Sholtar are able to learn abilities by carefully studying others, and, regardless of their class, they can always improve by incorporating the talents of others into their skill set.