ToME is an almost-free RogueLike computer game, a variant of Angband.

Middle-earth is a troubled place. The few towns on the surface of Middle-earth remain relatively safe, but the many dungeons below Middle-earth host uncounted monsters, and all of these monsters want to kill you. The player begins in the town of Bree, and adventures into the dungeons of Middle-earth, to gain experience fighting monsters and to recover lost artifacts. Your goal is to become strong enough to challenge the Necromancer of Dol Goldur. But first, you must survive. Death is forever, and the only way to play after death is to start a new character.

ToME takes many of its locations, monsters and artifacts from the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien. When Gandalf bested the Necromancer in The Hobbit, that was not the end of the story. Likewise, though time is long enough before you best the Necromancer in ToME, so that is not the end of the game. There is a final quest before you can win ToME. And not all winning characters are the same. The class and race that you select at the start of the game, the skills that you increase, and your luck with discoveries of equipment in the dungeon, they all affect your style of play; there is more than one way to win, and so many ways to die.

Kernigh began to play ToME in May of 2006. At this site, the FirstTomeGames page describes Kernigh's very first experiences with ToME. Kernigh made GameRecordings of all its games of ToME since the very first game; you may fetch all but the most recent recordings from the DownloadTtyrec section. Over at the ToME wiki, the UserPageKernigh provides more recent information about Kernigh and ToME. The Day in the Life of Agrelaa, begun September 2007, is a tale of Kernigh's first character to succeed in the Barrow-downs, the game's first dungeon.

You may edit this wiki page. The text is in the PublicDomain.