The Arena: Challenge of the Master

The Arena: Challenge of the Master is a campaign included in the base game of Tales of Maj'Eyal. It must be unlocked by completing the quest The agent of the arena in the Age of Ascendancy campaign.

In-Game Locked Description

Blood spilled on sand, only the strong survive. Prove yourself worthy to enter.

In-Game Description

Play as a lone warrior facing the Arena's challenge!
You can use any class and race for it.
See how far you can go! Can you become the new Master of the Arena?
If so, you will battle your own champion next time!

Playable Characters

All races and classes are playable in this campaign.

This campaign can only be played on Roguelike permadeath.

Features

This campaign is set in The Arena. The player must defeat waves of enemies, which include fixed bosses. At the start of the campaign, the player can choose whether to face 30 waves of enemies, or the full 60 waves.

At the start of each wave, the doors to the arena open and adversaries will continue show up until the doors close again. Completing a wave gives experience, and there will be a timer for the time before the next wave.

The Transmogrification Chest is not available, so auto-pickup is also not available - you must manually press the pickup key. Items will disappear from the ground after 25 turns.

There is a single store available in The Arena. It appears at the start of the game, and after defeating each boss (except the final boss). You cannot enter/exit the store, the game will simply put you there - so you will not be able to check your current inventory. You will receive some gold for each boss you defeat, but the store will not pay more than 1 gold for each item sold to it, so don't expect being able to buy expensive stuff.

No form of resurrection can be used in this campaign.

The final boss is the Master of the Arena. If the player has an eligible previous winning character, that character will be reused as the final boss. If not, the default Master, Rej Arkatis, will be the final boss. There can be 2 previous winners stored: 1 for 30 waves, and 1 for 60 waves. A previous winner will be eligible if they had the same version of ToME, same set of addons, and same number of waves as the current character.

TODO: Other mechanics