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The Role-Playing genre is rife with fantasy settings and medieval landscapes tailor-made for big, epic adventures.  Less common are science-fiction tropes and plotlines, from space travel to grim, dystopian futures.  But rarest of all are settings that explore the common ground between the two, that take a setting from one and inject a healthy dose of the other.  Enter Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, Troika’s sprawling, open-ended RPG that stakes a claim in just such a setting, taking swords and sorcery and meshing it with steam engines and gunpowder.

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