Gar is a half-ogre and therefore can only wear large-size armor. This is a bit harder to find than normal-size armor, but not impossible... check shops and of course loot the corpses of any half-ogres you kill. Similarly, dwarves and gnomes can only wear small armor. By the way, if at any point you try to smith armor, remember that you can pick the size of it by using the correct size to start with. For example, a healing jacket is made from leather armor, so if you start with large leather armor you will get a large healing jacket.

EDIT: Oops, I was thinking of Sodd Mead Mug. Gar is actually a half-orc and should be able to wear normal-sized armor. Not sure what the issue is.

I'm not sure if you can fix a fully broken item, but you can definitely fix damaged items. The easiest way is to go to Tarant, as the blacksmith and/or junk dealer are skilled enough at repairing items that they can do it without lowering the items' maximum durability. This will cost money but not too much.

Virgil does indeed count as one of your followers. You can dismiss him if you'd rather take someone else though. But yes, you need a lot of charisma to get lots of followers... most characters who are NOT focusing on being smooth-talkers will only have one or maybe two followers. It is possible to make a character with max charisma who is still good at other stuff though... I've heard of playing a charismatic summoner or charismatic thief, for example. But if you want to get lots of differnet magic skills (i.e. more than one college) or you want to be a tech character who can make lots of tech items, you probably won't have enough points to also be very charismatic.

The exact charisma values you need for each additional follower is given in the manual.

There is a mod to remove the level cap if you like, but I actually like it because it means you have to specialize to some extent and can't learn everything. I did hit the level cap before the end of the game but it was close to the end.

Fair point, although learning some keyboard shortcuts can help a bit.

That is true - though I don't know what might have been said after the final part. The ending cinematic shows the enemy's destruction and then goes right to the post-game world slides because after that point there wouldn't be a lot/anything in the game for you to do as a player.

Gar is a half-orc if I remember, correctly, actually. So he should be able to wear medium sized armor (unless the bug was that he was classified as needing large armor). I never really used Gar as a follower more than once or twice, so I can't remember if this was a problem I encountered too.

Can't help with the bug, but yes Gar is half-orc...although Parnell is passing him off as "the worlds most intelligent [full-blood] orc."

I've found Gar can and will only wear Barbarian Clothes, Dread Armor, or Red Barbarian Clothes. Probably Bronze Barbarian Clothes as well, never tried. He will, however, at least wear those. I was rather surprised when I handed some to him and he donned 'em.

Whoops! I totally confused Gar and Sodd Mead Mug for some reason. Terribly embarrassing. You are, of course, correct.

Not to be, "That Guy" but Gar is actually a full-blooded human who just looks half-orc. He tells you both his parents were human but he inexplicably came out looking all half-orc styled so there must be some orc in their bloodline. I only know this because I just picked him up with my "good" character I'm playing. My evil character is probably going to point and laugh at him.

As for things that bug me about Arcanum, can I get an amen for the battle system being a bit of a pain at times either going too fast in real-time or slow as a turtle in turn-based?

I have a love/hate relationship with this game.

Love the atmosphere, story , music, free form character creation system and steampunkiness.

Hate discovering many hours into a game that my build sucks and the best thing to do is just start over again 0.o

In regards to Gar: You do indeed have to be good, so no harm in being mean to the faux-orc fellow.

In regards to fighting: I guess maybe I'm just impatient with the Turn-based combat.

Can't you use "fast turn based" instead of "turn based" in the options menu? I remember reading that this would speed up enemy turns. I haven't tried it myself as I like to see exactly where all the enemies are moving.

Yeah, I use fast turn based. Actions are performed at the same speed but movement happens fast. So if you click on an enemy to attack them in melee your character instantly moves to the enemy but then attacks at normal turn based attack speed. I like it.

Does it speed up enemies' movement? People were complaining about waiting for slow-moving enemies in turn based mode.

Yep, all characters move to their destinations faster in Fast Turn Based combat. I think it works really well in Arcanum as a good blend between the tactics of turn based and the speed of real time.

Gar's mother had a fling with an orc or half-orc IMO. That is the subtext . If someone was going to add a mod there should be someway/how you run into an orc/half-orc that looks like gar and then the story comes out about his mother's infidelity hehe....

Yessir combat is jacked. But it works okay enough with some space bar toggling. OK get going, oh! STop, go, stop..... Makes you feel like you are learning to drive all over again!! that or parallel parking with dodgy breaks....

I was looking for a legit/easy to use hack/save-game editor... The only one I found wants me to put files in a windows folder, which sounds insane to me.

If I could edit I would (taken out the level cap) up my levels enough to plug in some early Charisma and perception. Charisma to help me see all the content, adding followers to me is a chance to 'inspect them' (I guess I could just look them up in a manual/on the net). I like having a good look at them, and completing the process of getting them to join. Perception is simple- so I can scroll more. With low perception (especially wearing a helm) can't hardly scroll at all and I find it annoying.

And stuff. Typical Troika game, bunches and bunches of great stuff, but a good lot of annoying stuff to go with it. Always biting off more than they can chew in the development process, but in the end I am glad somebody has made games with as many facets as they have.

Fun fact: the original game actually was forgiving. It had random encounter tables which prevented level discrepancies. Drog Black Tooth felt they were unrealistic and removed them.

What, and miss a free fate point? Never!