Unfortunately, these annoying but not fatal glitches were only the start of something worse. TOEE crashed to desktop a few times on me before, but after a good 10 hours into the game, the game now consistently crashes to desktop every time I try to access the overland map. Thus stumped, I went looking for technical support at the official site and found a number of other bugs, glitches, and other inconsistencies in TOEE. One of these is a spell bug, one of which – a silence spell that never wears off – can completely nullify a player’s mage character. Numerous quest and skill bugs, erratic NPC behavior, and generally poor performance have also been documented. This heaped on the impression that TOEE was released far too early. Being hardly hardcore enough to restart and pray to the various Greyhawk deities for it to work, TOEE got shelved. Atari and Troika are working on a patch, but until then, TOEE is as disappointing as the other D&D bug casualty, Pool of Radiance. At least TOEE’s RPG game will be a lot more interesting than the latter once the patch (hopefully) fixes most of the problems.