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[quinnr]

Link: http://tomenet.net

Quite surprised there wasn't a thread on this game yet, it's quite a bit of fun.
It's a roguelike game (seems to be based on Angband) that is multiplayer. It manages to keep the roguelike feel of the game, while allowing players to work together to dive into dungeons together, eventually defeating Morgoth and receiving the title of 'King/Queen'.

Spoiler: image (click to show/hide)

Excuse the cramped screen, I have a tiny netbook...

The multiplayer aspect of the game is executed quite nicely, using real-time 'turns' in order to allow everyone to keep playing. You still need to be able to react to things without as much planning, but it's slow enough that it's feasible. At lower dungeon levels, time actually slows down completely in order to maintain this reaction time, as monsters at lower levels become faster and faster as you progress.

The game also has a bunch of neat classes, as well. I'm currently playing a mimic, where I can transform into any monster I kill enough times. Quite nice to be able to see that nasty unique monster and be able to turn into a fruit bat to get away. There's a bunch of other features as well, too many for me to list, so I'll just copy them into a spoiler.

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    * Real-time multiplayer online rogue-like gameplay; time passes slower on deeper levels to make up for speed gain of players and monsters, keeping the real-time experience at an optimum
    * Day/night changes, four seasons, weather
    * Sound effects and dynamic background music
    * Normal server and ironman rules server (dubbed 'RPG server')
    * 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
    * Allow non-PvP mode chars to still fight each other in friendly duels that won't kill the player who loses
    * Automatically scheduled special events
    * Players may create artifacts if they have the required resources
    * Post-king gameplay: 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
    * 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
    * Over 200 types of floor features/terrain
    * Multiple towns and a rich world map with lots of completely different types of dungeons spread out over it
    * Parties and guilds, which feature shared houses and internal chat
    * 17 distinct races and 13 classes to choose from
    * Skill system allowing for specialization, for example put your rogue's emphasis on being a hideous backstabber, a user of shadowy magic, or an infamous shoplifter who even steals items from the black market without being caught ..most of the time.
    * Class and race specific special abilities such as "cloaking mode" for rogues or "firestones" for draconians
    * Rich variety of shape-shifting classes and features
    * Broad possibilities of creating hybrid classes that allow for unusual combinations of abilities and skills
    * Many special stores in towns (Casino for gambling; possibility to play a game of Go) and dungeons; dungeon towns (in a special ironman competition dungeon)
    * Players may turn their houses into stores that sell items in their absence
    * Powerful macro system, featuring a wizard that makes macro creation easily done in three steps even by beginners.
    * Dual-wielding of 1-handed weapons for certain extra combat boni if you choose to forego heavy armour
    * Parrying and blocking with weapons and shields respectively
    * Different combat stances, special melee and ranged techniques that cost "stamina" to use
    * Advanced commands for handling certain tasks without annoyances, such as 'x' which combines wear/wield and take-off in a special manner
    * Different types of monster AI regarding movement and combat that will result in challenging behaviour
    * Players may create a golem that heeds their command (albeit more of a fun feature than of serious use)
    * Spell system and certain other game aspects are handled by LUA script which allows for seamless updates without requiring players to manually download anything in case something gets adjusted, changed or fixed
    * Players may create own spellbooks from combining single spells of their choice into blank books

Retrieved from "http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php/TomeNET"

I've made a party for anyone who wants to join and share experience, so if you want in just post your character's name and I'll add you. I recommend you make your first character an 'everlaster', so that you can share items with the rest of the party..the other option is Normal or Hard, where you will only have three lives before you cannot be revived. (There's also a Hellish one-death mode, too.)

List of Bay12 Characters:
-Quinn (QuinnR) the Goblin Copier
-Vherid (Vherid) the Dark-Elven Vagabond [Not in Party]
-Naxza (Naxza)
-Repalet (Repulsion)
-Sasirk (?) the Dwarven Rookie.

You can type :name:message to anyone in the party and they can add you.

[Vherid]

This looks pretty sick

[ThtblovesDF]

Also doesn't work on any operating system and if then only once every 3rd full moon~

Nevermind, that was about another game also called Tome... joining up-.-

[quinnr]

Also doesn't work on any operating system and if then only once every 3rd full moon~

What do you mean? It's been working fine perfectly for me for a few days now.

[quinnr]

Seen a few new players. Speak up in the thread if you join from here, so I can invite you to the party.

You can also talk to people in the party by pressing ':', and then 'Tab' until the chat bar says 'Party'.

Also, fun story: I walk down a staircase, and literally half a second later by a flashy unique monster that bursted through a door and rushed at me. Killed it fine, but then was mobbed by orcs as I was walking around the level. Had no scrolls of teleportation left, and was murdered. I float up through the ceiling making my way back to the town, when Farmer Maggot's dog sees me and attacks my ghost, bringing my almost halfway dead again before I could float back up the final level to the town. Scared me half to death.

[PsyberianHusky]

So, how is the system with Perma-death?
an "everlaster" makes you immune to it?

[quinnr]

So, how is the system with Perma-death?
an "everlaster" makes you immune to it?

When you create a character you are asked to choose 'Everlaster', 'Normal', or a couple other different difficulty modes. Everlaster means your character only dies if your ghost is murdered. The other ones either have no ghosts or you die permanently after a certain number of revives.

Only other thing that changes is that Everlasters can't use Non-everlaster's items (trade with them) and vice versa.

EDIT: Naxza, if you stay on the level above for a long enough time, you'll get a level feeling on the next level that will tell you if there're any OoD monsters on the level, so you can just go back up and go down again later.

[quinnr]

I bought a house for anyone in the party! It's only 2x1 squares, but we can use it to drop items in. Anyone in the same party as myself can enter, it's just northeast of Bree..the door should be a different color to show you can enter.

Aye, I knew that, but I reached a point where I really needed resistances and those are hard to come by on a monk character, coupled with death taking some twenty minutes to recoup the exp from...

Mostly I think I was just playing poorly since I wasn't too into roguelikes back then. Downloaded now, on in a sec.

NOTE TO ANYONE WHO DECIDES TO TRY THIS- Turn Numlock off and then use shift + numbers to start running. I played the first few hours without knowing about this and hot dang, it was slooooow.

Shift + Direction only works if it is both light (or torchlit) and no monsters are in sight. But good tip. You can also turn on roguelike style VI keys by pressing =-1-y-ESC

[Repulsion]

Got into this, my character is named Repalet.

I assume that I will meet up with some of you guys soon enough.

[Niveras]

I'm not too hot for the idea of multiplayer (and I somewhat suspect if it's built around multiplayer, then the deep dungeon is balanced around multiple players), but I'll try it out just for a change of pace from other roguelikes.

[quinnr]

I'm not too hot for the idea of multiplayer (and I somewhat suspect if it's built around multiplayer, then the deep dungeon is balanced around multiple players), but I'll try it out just for a change of pace from other roguelikes.

Not sure how the rest of the dungeon is, but I know the final boss is scaled to the number of players present, so perhaps something like that is done for the later dungeon? I haven't had too much trouble going it alone so far, I'm up to about level 15 right now. It's definitely easier with others to help, though.

[Vherid]

Alright im stepping on right now, same name


Game has a very interesting interface.

[quinnr]

4 people in the Bay12 party now, and one non-everlaster playing too.
Doing pretty well so far, up to level 15, mostly just wasted time this afternoon, walking all the way to Gondolin in my spider form to see what it was like.

Answer: It was flooded with novice Paladins that hate spiders. -shudder-
I think I'll make a list of players in the first post.

[Nighthawk]

I could play. I've played TomeNET before, so I know basics and such. (I'll still need direction.)

I prefer ranged classes.

You may see me on as Nighthawk, once I re-download the game.

[Hitty40]

Looks very interesting, downloading now.

Ok, I created a new account and such, but the game crashed on me and now I can't log in. I do not have a character created yet.