Junior Adventurer's Guild - May: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

[Oyster Sauce]

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

An Industrial Revolution in a World of Magick

Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwarves, Humans, Orcs and Elves alike. A place of Ancient runes and steamworks, of magick and machines, of sorcery and science. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.



Character Design allows you to customize your character any way you choose
Whether you choose magick or technology, the Arcanum world adapts and responds to your character's development
Classless, point-based attribute system allows for limitless creativity in guiding your character's development
8 basic stats, such as Strength and Charisma
More than a dozen derived stats, from Poison Resistance to Character Speed
16 Primary skills, including Gambling and Healing
80 Spells with 16 Colleges of Magick
56 technological degrees within 8 disciplines


Extraordinary Adventure Features

Explore a world as vast as it is mysterious-it would take over 30 real-time hours to traverse the land of Arcanum
Meet more than 300 unique characters and monster types across this huge land
Many means exist to solve the myriad quests, from dueling to discourse to thievery
Take on a band of ogres in real-time, or plan your strategy through turn-based combat - you decide
Accurate day and night cycles affect the gameplay, from combat to thieving skills
Automatic character management lets action-oriented players delve into the quest at hand
Create your own worlds or play the included multiplayer scenario online cooperatively or competively

Where to acquire

https://www.gog.com/en/game/arcanum_of_ ... ck_obscura - $5.99


Time to beat

31.5 hours - Main
44 hours - Main + Sides
84 hours - Completionist


Troubleshooting + Community Patches

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Arcan ... ck_Obscura

Unofficial Arcanum Patch


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[Oyster Sauce]

Who knew there were only 30 days in April?

[Tweed]

Voting, even though I know it's fake and gay.

[Finarfin]

Life is fake and gay indeed

[Vergil]

Why is the thread title ****** up until you click on it?

[Tweed]

Just remember guys:

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[Oyster Sauce]

Why is the thread title ****** up until you click on it?

How so?

[Vergil]

Why is the thread title ****** up until you click on it?

How so?

[Oyster Sauce]

Why is the thread title ****** up until you click on it?

How so?

Soul

[DagothGeas5]

Seeing as I am having some things to do these days and I fear I won't be able to sit down and finish the game, anyone wants my vote do let me know

[logincrash]

Just remember guys:

Late votes djuh count?

[Tweed]

Seeing as I am having some things to do these days and I fear I won't be able to sit down and finish the game, anyone wants my vote do let me know

Arcanum is gud and I haven't actually finished it, so vote for that.

[DagothGeas5]

Seeing as I am having some things to do these days and I fear I won't be able to sit down and finish the game, anyone wants my vote do let me know

Arcanum is gud and I haven't actually finished it, so vote for that.

Done

[Valter]

Seeing as I am having some things to do these days and I fear I won't be able to sit down and finish the game, anyone wants my vote do let me know

Arcanum is gud and I haven't actually finished it, so vote for that.

Done

Gamers are a threat to our democracy!

[TheEmptyRoad]

For once not only do I recognize all of these, I’d be fine with any of them. Though I haven’t played the first Atomfall yet so would feel bad about jumping into the sequel.

[Tadeusz]

Though I haven’t played the first Atomfall yet so would feel bad about jumping into the sequel.

Atomfall? Different game. Well, you can always complete the original ATOM RPG and get a badge

[TheEmptyRoad]

Though I haven’t played the first Atomfall yet so would feel bad about jumping into the sequel.

Atomfall? Different game. Well, you can always complete the original ATOM RPG and get a badge

****. Welp, too late to edit now.

[Tadeusz]

Looks like we have a tie again. Is @J1M the only tie-breaker or do we have others? What's the protocol for such situations?

[logincrash]

Looks like we have a tie again. Is @J1M the only tie-breaker or do we have others? What's the protocol for such situations?

We play KotOR because it's May and a 20 year anniversary of Revenge of the Sith.

[Tadeusz]

I'd suggest looking into the history of how many times the game was nominated - the one that was nominated more times wins.

[Tweed]

I'd suggest looking into the history of how many times the game was nominated - the one that was nominated more times wins.

Gonna play whatever **** we pick so I can start nominating Gayblade.

[dagal]

Any of those games would be worth revisiting, and none of them superior to the other with the exception of kotor 2 with TSLRCM

[1998]

Arcanum probably the most nominated game here. Guess it is about time.

[Dorateen]

Storm of Zehir was the best thing to happen to the Neverwinter Nights series. It brought back proper party-based gameplay, introducing the party chat conversation interface, which is brilliant. There is also a real bleeding and death system instead of characters getting knocked out and auto healing after combat. Good exploration themed adventure.

[1998]

Storm of Zehir was the best thing to happen to the Neverwinter Nights series. It brought back proper party-based gameplay, introducing the party chat conversation interface, which is brilliant. There is also a real bleeding and death system instead of characters getting knocked out and auto healing after combat. Good exploration themed adventure.

I agree and appreciate your vote. Let's remember it next time

[Valter]

Alright, I get it now.

[Oyster Sauce]

There's still plenty of time to vote for KOTOR II

[Tangerine]

Alright, I get it now.

Technically true if you make your character a foid. But why would you?

[Vergil]

Vote for Arcanum or I'll rape your Anaum

[J1M]

Looks like we have a tie again. Is @J1M the only tie-breaker or do we have others? What's the protocol for such situations?

The protocol is that in the rare case of a tie I get to decide arbitrarily as compensation for making the badges.