ToME WikiYo world, wassup?* (*Hello world went out ages ago)
This is the wiki page for Christopher Ames, formally known as Christopher, but from here on in to be refered to as a more WikiName friendly ChrisAmes.
Christopher Ames the programmer ('h') A moody teenager wearing all black. His programming skills are mighty, but right now he looks like he needs a friend. He is friendly to you, lives in town or wilderness, and moves at normal speed. He is magical, casting spells which summon Software bugs; about 1 time in 2. He is a mortal being. Nothing is known about his attack. (from ToME and 1/2 v 0.0.4)
I'm only 15 years old, but have played roguelikes for about a year and a half. I used to play (and occasionally still do) a lot of your typical colony/base building games where you collect resources etc, build more stuff and go to war on other players. One fateful day I bought a disk which had over 50 freeware games on it, mostly because of the stratergy ones. One of these games was Nethack. At first Nethack seemed impossible just to learn all the controls, but after a few weeks I was addicted. It took me about six months before I finally ascended, and after another three months had ascended six times, twice with conducts. Around this time I was getting bored, and began looking for other roguelikes. During this hunt I discovered Usenet, and still post in RGR* occasionly. I played a lot of the mostly-unknown games, and found one good futuristic game (which I can't remember the name of) which I played for a month of so. I then began to play ADOM, and played it for a few months before getting sick of the frequent bugs and game crashes, and the incredibly frustrating item destruction. I tried vanila Angband at this point, but found it rather boring for such a popular roguelike. I went back to spending a week or two on some less known ones (especially Dungeon Crawl and Sangband), then saw a passing comment on Usenet about ToME having the most things to do in it for quests and the like. I like quests and stuff (which is partly why Angband is boring for me...) so I gave it a try and loved it. After a month or so I began to post on the ToME forums and only lately I've been on the wiki.
I kind of got bored of ToME (and all roguelikes for that matter) for a while, but after the games I was playing were made unavailabe (for reasons I wont go into) I played a quick game of ToME, and managed to get myself addicated again.
I've never won ToME (though I came close once with a rohanknight swordmaster and an 'Annals of Ea' Balrog geomancer) but have played almost all mods at least once. Theme is currently my favourite (with T-plus and Annals of Ea close behind). I started making my own module (ToME and 1/2) a while ago that added more stuff, but I lost a lot of unfinished work when I got bored with ToME, plus a lot of the stuff I want to change as well as add to, so I've started making another mod (MoME: Modification of Middle Earth). For now I've just working on the classes, races and subraces, as well as a few skills for a class or two, as well as editting some of the current ones. When I'm finished the amount of classes, races and subraces will almost certainly be doubled.
Oh, and had a really good character going, Zaodan, who made it past the Crypt level for the first time in my characters, but but he sadly died after I forgot to trap check while battle greater Demonic Q-things, and hit a trap of drop everything... At least he went down fighting with his nice powerful sword!
I did actually win the game with T-plus, but I'm not counting that since T-plus seems to munchkin if you ask me and I was playing an Avatar sorceror... it was cool killing and replacing Morgoth anyway. I put a dump here if you're interested: * /MunchKING!
For as long as I can remember (well, okay I can remember getting it, but it sounds more dramatic that way) I've had a motto that applies to life in general, and can be applied to games like ToME too to give positive motivation. If it's do-able, I can do it. This was later supplemented with: If it's not, I can't. Again after a while this was revised to a more realistic version: If it's do-able, I can do it, providing I put in the required effort This version sadly had a fatal bug, and was upgraded to: If it's do-able for me at this current time, I can probably do it, providing I put in the required effort. Of course, after playing ToME this was changed to a more technical: If it's do-able for me at this current time, I can probably do it unless it's winning ToME, providing I put in the required effort. This was later ported to LUA and ended up with a accurate, multi-platform (if somewhat less motivating than the original)
local do-able, it, effort
it = get_aim_goal()
do-able = can_be_done(TRUE)
if (it == do-able) and (do-able.now == TRUE) then
if (it == winning.tome(now, TRUE) then
return can.do.it(ChrisAmes, FALSE)
else
effort = get_quantity(1000)
if (effort < needed.effort(it)) then
return can.do.it(ChrisAmes, FALSE)
else
if (randint(10) > 8) then
return can.do.it(ChrisAmes, TRUE)
else
return can.do.it(ChrisAmes, FALSE)
end
end
end
else
return can.do.it(ChrisAmes, FALSE)
end
But oh well. That's life I guess! 
A few random thoughts:
Some people say that they seek the truth. But what is this truth that they desire so badly? No one will deny that we live, and that is truth. Yet people will still argue over why and how. In the end there is only life, and everything else is left to interpretation. And that is the only truth.
Science can prove anything, but that doesn’t make it true.
The devil’s in the details. That’s why I do all that I can to neglect them.
There are three things you can never escape in life: Food, sex and advertising.
Gaming Habbits:
(These are from regular ToME of course. My favourites are actually from my own mod.)
Favourite races: Dark elves, hobbits and humans.
Least favourite races: Ents and deathmolds.
Favourite race modifier: Hermits and barbarians.
Least favourite race modifiers: Skeletons and Zombies
Favourite classes: Warpers and demonologists.
Least favourite classes: Loremasters and Rangers
Favourite god: Melkor
Least favourite god: Yavanna
Favourite module: Theme
Favourite dungeon: Erebor
Least favourite dungeon: Sandworm lair
2nd favourite roguelike: ADOM
2nd favourite *band: Sangband
Wins: None. 
Best Character: Zaodan the Rohanknight vampire swordmaster, sadly killed by a greater demon after forgetting to check for traps and setting off one of 'drop everything'
Most embarasing death: Finding a junkart of teleport and deciding to activate it a few times to see if i could rely on it during critical moments. I telported into Bree's lake and only escaped via scroll. I thought 'well that can't possibly happen again' and activated it a second time after resting, only to teleport back into the lake and drown!
Favourite escape method: I'm a genocide junkie! Once I get a junkart of mass genocide I use it so often even for trivial things like mouses reproducing over a level.
Favorite find: The One Ring! (evil grin)
Bad Game habits: In general attempting chalanges such as quests, monsters, uniques and dungeons way before I'm ready. Ignoring magic-devices with characters that need them. Getting killed by simple things becasue I'm not paying attention.
Good Game Habits: Winning aforementioned chalanges, dealing with disadvantages well.
Strangest habbits: A strange desire to eat every fortune cookie I see.
Oddest actions: Attempting to bash Smeagol, and keeping chunks of unique corpses in my Bree house.
Favourite ToME feature: The magic system!
Least Favourite ToME feature: It. (the monster, and the reason I hate extra monsters)
Favourite moment: I once managed to defeat Trone just after my Swordmaster had finished Mirkwood. I had thunderlorded down to Erebor 70 to read some scroll of summon never moving pet, since I had just got Symbiosis to 25. I read them all and got 2 greater rotting Qs and 2 greater draconic Qs, but no Demonic or master. I took a step to grab the rotting one, but hit a trap of no return. Just as I took and wore the Qs, Trone came around the corner and breathed on me, leaving me with 50 or so health. I fled into the mountains (boots of Thror) and healed. I went back into the open to mfind the area swarmed with ants due to ant queen, and managed to summon a bunch of level 70 undeads, who wiped out most of the monsters there, and I finished of Trone when he was down on 1 star. Unfortunetly he died on Erebor 67 when fighting his way back up.
Chatter
To chat or not to chat?
ChrisAmes: Thanks for fixing the page, MassimilianoMarangio! I need more wiki practice...
MayLith: Great code! I'm still giggling. 