First time I was a Summoner mage, with maxed Charisma and an army of followers to do my fighting. This time I'm a thieving halfling pyromaniac (grenadier) who steals everything that isn't nailed down. It adds a completely different dimension to the game!

Play as a Savant. It's worth for the Virgil's frustrated comments alone ;)

I'd assume that's a school of magic? Which one is it?

He's talking about the background selection "Idiot Savant"

You don't need to pick Idiot Savant. Any low-intelligence character will get the same "moron" dialogue options, like in the Fallout games.

And I agree that they're pretty funny, though I don't like playing such characters. Being really stupid gets annoying after a while.

I think it is more fun as an Idiot Savant because you can still have high intelligence, everyone just thinks you're an idiot. So you can definitely role play that in various ways.

Carries a bonus to gambling, too. There's something to be said for that. Must get very strange, sometimes...

Edit: I may have to try this with a character who is awesome at thieving skills. Being very intelligent but utterly incomprehensible is probably less of an impediment if you can get into and out of any place in the game with a lockpick set.

Well, I made it to Level 50 before I even found Qintarra. Now I'm getting antsy to skip side quests & work on the main quest...hope to kill every living thing on the continent before my final battle. ;-)

WHAT?

Isn't Qintarra that Elf village? You haven't even gotten to (SLIGHT SPOILER) Caladon, have you (SPOILER END)? How on earth did you do that?

Whew. Forgive me. It's just that, well, I was playing on Easy and didn't get to level 50 until I was in, you know, that one place that isn't Arcanum. You know, almost the very end of the game.

This does sound like quite an achievement. I want to know what year it is in his game right now.

Its pretty easy to get to 50 with no followers. Its when you have a crap load of people following you around that it becomes hard to level up.

I only have 1 follower, Virgil. I reached Level 50 sometime between 10/12/1886 (finished the Wheel Clan) & 11/3/1886 (finally made it through Hardin's Pass). I did as many dungeon-crawl areas as possible, and I killed as many quest-givers as I could (after completing their quests, of course).

Just finished it (again). I gotta say, having killed so many people after performing their quests, I really threw the land of Arcanum into chaos during the end-game recap of my consequences...hehehe.

I take that Shrouded Hills did not become a boom town then?

Even my evil character only kills people who aren't of use to him or do him wrong (that elf in Stillwater who wanted the pelt was dead meat pretty fast, his ghost was eager to tell me where to go, though). He's evil, but not "Kill everyone for no reason evil."