When it asks you how many 'random quests' you want, select 30 for now. Many of these options increase the difficulty of the game, especially 'persistent levels', 'joke monsters', 'small levels' and especially any of the 'ironman' options, such as 'always generate special rooms'. If you've never played the game, select NO. For obvious reasons, these options can't be changed later. There are a few options that can only be changed at 'birth', such as 'generate persistent levels' and 'allow small levels' and 'you can receive fates, good or bad'. When it asks if you want to modify the options: the options it's talking about are the 'birth options'. Highlight the option and type ? to see a (quite) detailed description of how it will affect your game. This guide is for complete beginners, and is intended to help you past the first few levels.īe sure to hit the ? key on any of the options during character creation: race, race modifiers, class, specific class, religion, etc. In fact, if you've never played ToME, just select rogue-assassin as your class, so this goes well, and pick what you want your second playthrough. Other classes will still get some valuable information from this guide, so please read. Different types of monster AI regarding movement and combat that will result in challenging behavior.I usually play rogues in ToME, so this guide will be towards rogues.Powerful macro system, featuring a wizard that makes macro creation easily done in three steps even by beginners.A variety of shape-shifting classes and features.17 distinct races and 13 classes from which to choose.Parties and guilds, which feature shared houses and internal chat.Multiple towns and a rich world map with lots of completely different types of dungeons spread out over it.Over 200 types of floor features/terrain.

Over 250 static artifacts, infinite random artifacts, over 200 special item powers, over 1000 items, over 1100 monsters and many 'ego monster' types (IE variations of base monsters).Post-king game play: Characters that have beaten the main boss, Morgoth, may venture into another insanely dangerous dungeon to try and find the last remaining path to Valinor, to possibly retire on its shores.Automatically scheduled special events.Various character modes, including: Traditional rogue-like (one life), MAngband-style (infinite resurrections), PvP-mode for killing each other off in the game world or in a special PvP arena.Sound effects and dynamic background music.Day/night changes, four seasons, weather.Time passes slower on deeper levels to make up for speed gain of players and monsters, keeping the real-time experience at an optimum.The game has a full-fledged documentation called The TomeNET Guide - HTML version. TomeNET is feared for being hard to master, but at the same time the more rewarding to the skillful player who has learned to make use of all the nifty possibilities open to him. It was created around 2001 (originally under the name of PernMAngband which had to be renamed due to a letter of Anne McCaffrey's attorney who prohibited the use of the name Pern) as a fork of MAngband which got some ToME design added to it. TomeNET is a multiplayer rogue-like, based on and somewhat similar to MAngband and ToME, and also featuring some Zangband and Cthulu Angband monsters.

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