why are there so many overpowering options in car-arcanum?

why are there so many overpowering options in car-arcanum? has the main story somehow been altered to be harder so you need your character to be stronger too? the original game out of box wasn't too hard... is the point to take some advantages to make the game easier then also boost up the monster hit points to sort of rebalance things?...

how does the mod rebalance things? i liked the original arcanum but i did dislike how some characters were far better than others (some stats/schools where just a lot better than others)

 

Re: why are there so many overpowering options in car-arcanu

for mages its much harder because all of their most potent battle spells have been nerfed.

For tech characters it's probably somewhat easier than it was although now that enemies have been nearly all made essentially immune to at least one kind of attack damage even a techie might need to invest in multiple damage types.

Random encounters definately seem to be much much harder unless my memory of vanilla arcanum is skewed.

A lot of critters now poison you when you damage them which did nothing of the sort in vanilla arcanum.

There are tons and *tons* of traps everywhere! SO many freaking traps, dear god!

Be careful with how you answer the question about your characters attitudes towards gender roles at the beginning as well.

At the time it doesn't explain the significance but later on it turns out that only the first option has minimal effect while the other three all make you less popular in various places (in exchange for a stat increase). If you combine that choice with a low beauty you can end up with a character that is essentially killed on site in major locations like Tarant.