ToME WikiBasic idea is for a character who doesn't really do *anything* himself.
Your character is a disembodied spirit. You have no ability to directly affect the real world. You can, however, enlist various monsters to your cause, and carry out your intent through them.
Major points:
- This would require and depend on a *highly* detailed pet command system, with levels of available detail on pet commands depending on certain character skills.
- You *would* have some ability to assist your critters, through augmenting spells and combat advice and such. You might also have some ability to charm the critters in the dungeon, or perhaps raise their corpses from the dead, but you wouldn't be able to do it by yourself. You'd need the help of minions.
- Your character is essentially unkillable - but there is *nothing* he can do without helpers. If his little friends all die, he has to travel back to the surface and start all over again with an Impressionable Farmhand, Gullible Acolyte, or Desperate Mage Apprentice.
- Some minions can carry equipment. The player cannot.
- There should be a way for the character to gain skills that would help train minions
- Your character has no physical stats. Mental stats would be somewhat different - including a stat for magic, Charisma, and something to govern nonmagical train-and-tactics type skills.