About

First off, ToME; what is it? ToME is Tales of Maj'Eyal, a free-to-play rogue-like adventure game for PC, Mac, and Linux, developed by DarkGod. The link is in the sidebar since it's pretty important, and that would be be the better place to find out exactly what ToME is. For my purposes, the above description is enough. In addition to the site linked to the side, you can find ToME on Steam if you want to play for yourself. There is an option to donate via both website and Steam, but it is entirely unnecessary to do so for content reasons; the only thing (so far) behind a donation wall is a single Dwarf-exclusive class. Paying/Donating for content in a free game has a bad reputation, but DarkGod's approach sounds very encouraging.


The Challenge: The overall goal of this project is to beat the game with every Archer/race combo using a bow. So far I've done it with Dwarf and Skeleton, giving me 2 out of 9 races complete. For the sake of completion here, I may replay with those two races, but since I've already done it with them before that will likely be far down the road, barring any interesting changes to those races that could draw me back sooner.

Since I am in no way an expert or super hardcore, I will be playing on Normal difficulty with Adventure permadeath. This means unlike true roguelike difficulty, I'll have a few lives to lose assuming I reach the levels where they're awarded. Maybe once I'm back into the swing of things, and have a few more wins under my belt, I'll go to Nightmare difficulty. The permadeath I'm not likely to change because there is one particular boss that reliably kills me at least no matter how well-prepared or leveled I am or what class I'm playing, but maybe even more practice will change my mind on that one as well. Any changes to these two conditions will be noted in the status fixture at the top.

The only add-ons I intend to use are Stone Wardens DLC, Plenum Tooltip, Faster run/rest/explore (for the resting), and Enhanced Object Compare. The add-on configuration will also be clearly noted above for each run. Essentially, I'm only adding things that make it easier to get information I already have access to or improves performance due to my crappy laptop. I would consider using Marson's UI Modifications, but I use the wrong interface style with it and it's just not pretty. If that changes, it may make the list.


Other content: I have no intention to just run seven Archers back-to-back, so as a break between each run, I'll tinker around with some specific challenges to mix things up. This may be something as simple as stock class run with set conditions/limitations, custom classes, or silly/difficult add-ons. I'll also do my best to discuss and advise builds and issues involving the Archer class. This will likely apply mostly to bow users, but much of it will also apply to both flavors of Archer.