Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny is rpg game developed by Attic Entertainment Software and released by U.S. Gold in 1992. Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny runs on DOS.
Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny was based on a tabletop RPG. Realms of Arkania 1: Blade of destiny is part of the Realms of Arkania game series.
Attic Entertainment did a splendid job transferring the game system from its p&p origins to the computer. That however means that the Northland trilogy features several game mechanics that are rather unique and obscure to "normal" players. The developers often stated that these games were made by fans for fans. Being familiar with the p&p ruleset helps tremendously but is by no means required to enjoy the games.
Unfortunately, Sir-Tech did a lackluster job with the English localisation and introduced many bugs that did not exist in the German original. If possible you should choose the German CD-ROM relase over the English one.
LordBucket 13/05/2017 11:40
Classic example of a failed conversion from a pen and paper system to a computer game. Realms of Arkania is pretty and it presents well, but it's full of mechanics that should never have been put in a computer game. It has some great concepts, it looks great, making chracters is fun...but the final delivery is poor and the game part of the game kind of fails.
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