The last C release of ToME 2: open wilderness, gods, skills, and the Theme module.

• About the game
• Keyboard controls
• Saving your game
• Tips
• New player's guide
• Playing in the browser

About the game

ToME 2 is the kitchen-sink Angband variant. There is a whole map of Middle-earth to walk across, dozens of themed dungeons, and a flexible skill system: your class only sets starting skills and costs, and you decide how your character grows. 2.3.11 is the last release of the original C code, maintained by the ah fork: it fixes many bugs of 2.3.5 and adds the Theme module.

• Two modules at the start: ToME (the standard game, a quest to investigate the tower of Dol Guldur) and Theme (Furiosity's reworked Middle-earth with its own races and classes).
• Many races and subraces (Dúnadan, Ent, Beorning, Maia …) and classes from Warrior to Necromancer.
• Gods: follow Eru, Manwë, Tulkas, Melkor or Yavanna. Each gives piety-based powers, prayed for with p.
• Quests handed out in towns (see them with Ctrl+Q). You are no longer forced to leave at once for a quest, as older versions did.
• Unusual mechanics: hack up corpses (h) for food, pets, symbiotes, and abilities bought with N.

Keyboard controls

Essential keys

Saving your game

• Saving is automatic. Every save goes straight into this browser's storage (IndexedDB). The game saves on every level change, every two minutes while it waits for your next command, and whenever you switch to another tab or window.
• Ctrl+S saves and keeps playing. Ctrl+X saves and quits; reload the page (or press Play again) to continue. Both are also in the Enter menu under Options, saving and system.
• Reloading or closing the tab loses at most the last couple of minutes. The browser asks before you leave a running game.
• Each browser keeps one character per module (one ToME, one Theme). When the page starts, pick the module: the character of that module is loaded, or a new one is created. File ▾ → New game deletes the saved characters and starts over.
• Export save downloads the savefile you played last; Import save loads one (ToME or Theme). Use them to keep a backup or to move a character to another browser or computer.
• Your window layout, zoom levels and window titles are stored with the savegame, in the same browser storage, and survive a new character.
• Private/incognito windows and "clear site data" delete the stored game. Export first if the character matters.

Tips

• Spend skill points with G after levelling up. Your class decides which skills are cheap.
• Press < in the wilderness for the overworld map. It is the fast way to travel between towns.
• Unknown items are pseudo-identified the moment you pick them up, so you know at once whether something is good, average or cursed.
• Thaumaturgy spells were rebalanced in 2.3.9–2.3.10: bolts and balls are the useful ones, view and area spells are weaker.
• All polearms get a "far reaching" attack: you can hit a monster two squares away.
• Inscribe your healing potion with @q1 ({) so q 1 always drinks it.
• Read the in-game help (?): it is extensive and hyperlinked.

New player's guide

Your first steps

1. Choose the ToME module, then a race, class and god. A Human or Dúnadan Warrior with no god is a forgiving first character.
2. You start in Bree. Look around the shops (numbers on the buildings) and buy healing potions, food and light. Wield a torch (w, or i and the torch's letter).
3. Careful with the stairs inside Bree: they lead into a thieves' hideout quest where you wake up in a cell and your possessions are stolen. Try it once you're ready.
4. The first dungeon suggested to new characters is the Barrow-downs, west of Bree. Press < in the wilderness to open the overworld map and walk there.

Finding your way

• In the wilderness, < opens the overworld map. Walk on it to travel quickly, and press > to enter the area you are standing on.
• Dungeons are marked on the map. Each has its own depth range and theme (the Old Forest, Mirkwood, Moria and many more).
• Inside a dungeon, X auto-explores (Ctrl+V in the roguelike keyset), and < / > walk you to the nearest known staircase and take it.
• Forgot a key? Enter lists every command.

Things to try

• Pick a god and see how their powers change your play.
• Mix skills: a Warrior with some magic, or a Mage with archery.
• Try the Theme module once you know the standard game.
• Recruit or tame a pet and let it fight for you.

Staying alive

• The wilderness is dangerous at low level. Stay near Bree until you have a few levels.
• Watch your food: hunger can kill you in ToME 2.
• If a dungeon is too hard, leave it. There are plenty of others.

Playing in the browser

• Windows: the map fills the big window; Inventory and Visible (monsters and items in view) are on the right; Messages and Recall along the bottom.
• Resize windows by dragging the gaps between them. The windows always fill the screen and never overlap; the game redraws them at their new size. Reset windows puts everything back.
• Zoom: A− / A+ on the Map title bar (shown on hover) change the size of the map tiles. Hover over a small window's title to show its A− / A+ buttons, which change its text size.
• Rename a window by clicking its title, typing a new name and pressing Enter (Esc cancels, an empty name restores the default).
• Sound and music: the Sound and Music buttons switch sound effects and the town music on and off (both start off; the browser remembers your choice).
• Keys: arrow keys, the numeric keypad or 1–9 move you; Shift + direction runs.
• Mouse: click an entry in the command menu (Enter) or an item in the inventory or a "which item?" list to choose it; clicking outside a menu closes it.
• Browsers keep a few shortcuts for themselves (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+N, and Cmd shortcuts on a Mac), so those never reach the game.
• If the game ever crashes, a message appears at the top; reload the page to continue from your last save.

About this version

• Based on ToME 2.3.11.
• Original source: tome2/tome2, commit dac2d95 (tag v2.3.11-ah)
• Our changes (port, auto-explore, command menu, web build): memmaker/tome2