In ToME you don't start out with a home as you might in other *bands. In order to get a home, you have to do a home quest first. The good part is that you have the option to obtain up to five homes, one in each town.

To 'officially' obtain the home quest, ask the mayor in each town (except Khazad-Dum, which currently has no mayor.) This is not actually necessary; to start the quest, all you need to do is walk into the building with a yellow '>' for its door.

The difficulty of the home quest depends on which town it is in. The difficulty ranges from the Thieves Quest, which level 1 characters can do if they take care, to the home quest in Khazad-Dum called Evil! which can be tricky even for very experienced characters.

In some home quests, you cannot leave until the quest is completed.

The home quests are (in order of difficulty)

ReenenLaurie: I quickly made this page, though I think for a lot of chars with see invisible, the haunted house is easier than the dragons.

MayLith: I don't know; I always do the dragons before the haunted house. Might be force of habit. The haunted house quest in Z is much harder than the one in ToME. <g>

Is the Khazad-Dum house quest traditionally called Evil!? If not, I don't think it's a good idea to create that wiki page name. It's cute, but it's imprecise -- too many things about this game are evil :). Call it BalrogQuest (evil!), maybe.

BTW, where is this page linked from?

Spoilers/Quests -- MassimilianoMarangio 2004-07-23 21:17:24

ReenenLaurie: True, I never play with Z on, but I can imagine that the haunted house can be tough. I remember that I once struggled with it, so I guess the monsters in it are random, because I remember that time fighting a nightmare.

MayLith: I'm not talking about with Z monsters on... I was referring to the fact that the game Zangband (which I used to play before I became a ToME addict <g>) also has a Haunted House quest, but it's a completely different quest, and IMHO much harder than ToME's.

NeilStevens: The Khazad-Dum quest is indeed called 'Evil!'. Bree's is called 'Thieves!', Gondolin's is 'Dragons!', Lothlorien's is 'Wolves!', and Minas Anor's is 'Haunted House'.

MayLith: Thanks.

MayLith: I renamed things to pull out the exclamation points. I thought it might make it easier to do a search, as a newbie might know to do a search on dragon quest, but not on "dragons!" etc. If this idea is greatly disliked, I'll go back and relink everything.

DragonAtma: I've beaten the nhaunted house on at least two different characters, yet I still haven't beaten the Dragon quest. Go ahead, laugh at me for always having "Cheat Death" on -- I know you want to! ;(

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