Tearaway Pants: Overview
August 21, 2024
- These ain't no ripoff pants! Okay, well. Depending on how you evaluate its use, they might be ripoff pants. But one thing's for sure: they…
Roman Candelabra: Overview
July 3, 2024
- Now that I have you here, it's time to discuss how to pluralize the IOTM. No! Wait! Don't boo! It's funny! Candelabra is considered a plural…
Mini Kiwi: Overview
June 28, 2024
- I'm not the only one who thinks it's weird that kiwis have hair, right? The fruit. They're fuzzy little guys! My wife gets kiwis pretty…
Mayam Calendar: Overview
May 10, 2024
- Imagine the Tome of Clip Art. Now imagine it with a way cooler UI and more yams. If you can’t imagine it... well, good news: you don’t have…
Apriling band helmet: Overview
May 2, 2024
- The people have demanded a hat, and a hat they shall receive. The Apriling band helmet is the April IOTM, and it's filled to the brim with…
Everfull Dart Holster: Overview
March 29, 2024
- This IOTM is clearly a love letter from TPTB to the Kingdom's best dart thrower, ThreeBulletHamburgler (#1993636). "But Scotch, 3BH hasn't…
From B-Boys to B-Men: Planning Out a Standard Ascension
March 13, 2024
- First, you’ll want a resource planning sheet (similar to this one created in March of 2024) that comprehensively lists all available…
Crown of Thrones/Buddy Bjorn: a Retro Review
March 2, 2024
- Most IotMs are self-contained capsules that ship once and are never revisited. Occasionally they have explicit synergy and talk to each…
Spring Shoes: Overview
February 23, 2024
- Spring is here / a-suh-puh-ring is here / life is skittles / and life is beer! I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring. I do --…
Black & White Apron: Overview
February 17, 2024
- It was a little later than usual, by TPTB's (rather high) standards, but the 2024 IOTY dropped in late January, and it's a pretty…
Chest Mimic: Overview
January 3, 2024
- With the backup camera leaving standard, many speedsters were wondering if we'd get a new copy source at some point in the coming year; we…
A Primer on Faxes & Summons
January 1, 2024
- There are a ton of ways in KoL to summon monsters. Like, a ton. With italicized entries for standard items, a non-exhaustive list of the…
Candy Cane Sword Cane: Overview
December 1, 2023
- It's a cane! It's a sword! It's a candyswordcane! You can whip out the sword in the middle of your fights... and other adventures. That…
Wardrobe-o-Matic: Overview
November 29, 2023
- Whoa! This one came out of nowhere. With the Time Twitching Tower back, TPTB released a brand new item in the KOL Con Merch Table, at the…
Path Overview: Shrunken Adventurer
November 29, 2023
- A large portion of the articles on this website are going to feature a hidden secret agenda, a little easter egg for careful readers. For…
Path Overview: 2CRS
November 27, 2023
- Some paths are really, really simple. One small restriction here, a little boost there, a tiny tweak to the core mechanics there, et cetera.…
A Guide to Burning Leaves: Overview
October 31, 2023
- This month's IOTM is about going outside and touching grass. And then, after you touch grass, collecting leaves and burning them to cinders!…
Bottled Green Pixie: a Retro Review
October 19, 2023
- What bleats like a goat, shakes like a dog, and talks about how it was a total game-changer in a bygone era? No, it's not your hungover…
Jill-of-all-Trades: Overview
September 30, 2023
- Remember the Jill-o-Lantern? You know, that familiar from 20 years ago that revolutionized KOL, with the bleeding edge combination of a…
Haiku Katana: a Retro Review
September 5, 2023
- Katana so old / Reputation precedes it / Foes in a jumble. Okay, okay, I'm bad at haikus. Sue me. This one is an old mamma jamma, and here…
Book of Facts: Overview
August 31, 2023
- Have you ever gotten into a hole on Wikipedia, where you spend hours upon hours digging into increasingly bizarre and unfathomable facts…
August Scepter: Overview
July 31, 2023
- The August Scepter is a scepter you can use to cast skills. There are 31 skills you can cast, one for each day of August, the month of my…
Unrestricted Pulls
July 31, 2023
- Over 20 years of the game's existence, there's a ton of extremely powerful pulls you can snag to help speed up your non-hardcore speedruns…
Patriotic Eagle: IOTM Overview
June 30, 2023
- For one brief shining month in the 2023 Standard Set, TPTB put on their fancy Reds, Whites, and Blues and made the most patriotic IOTM of…