Realms of Arkania is one of the outstanding party adventures that came out in the nineties. The game has a pretty cool storyline, that enfolds through the whole series. Since it's a game out of a pen&paper background there is a large world, that was developed throughout the years with the help of the community. The graphics of the first two parts of the series have been quite dated already on release. The system is not very accesible to beginners, but if you can put up with these two shortcomings you get one of the most detailed rpgs ever. You can play it very much your way. There are even people who played the whole games through with just one partymember. But how you want to develop your crew is totally up to you. If you'd like to you could even make a living out of trading, or as a band of musicians or whatever. One thing I really would like to recommend though is one communitypatch since there still is a bug with the resilience to magica in the first part. A couple of human enemies are ridiculously resilient, almost immune to crowd controlling magic. This makes it a very bad choice to take a druid, elve or magician with your party, that specialices on this kind of magic. However, there is a communitypatch which can be found on the web. Thanks to gog for providing us with this gem. Thanks to the community for polishing it. p.s. Please excuse my English, I'm not a native speaker.
