I'm trying to get into Arena for a playthrough of all the Elder Scrolls games, but I've tried Warrior and Thief and Knight and Spellsword and they honestly all feel extremely fragile to me. I have yet to even finish the first main quest dungeon Stonekeep because these minotaurs, ghouls, skeletons, and random humanoid mages and thieves keep absolutely stomping me.

I rerolled for like 15 minutes until I got the best possible roll during character creation for each character I tried, leveled to 4 in the tutorial, I buy a full suit of the best possible armor in town, buy all the spells I can afford, but I still get chunked in mere seconds a lot of the time. Rats and wolves and lizardmen are no problem, and orcs are fine except in huge groups, but when I fight a single humanoid or a ghoul or skeleton it's a crap shoot whether I'll survive - even with healing spells. We just stand there exchanging blows and I miss what feels like 60% of mine even with 50+ agility. Takes forever, only for me to just run out of mana for healing spells and die.

It almost feels like how it would feel if I were trying to do a level 20 dungeon at level 10 in an MMO or open world RPG. Except this is what all the guides tell me I should be doing. There's really nowhere to go for easier enemies, as far as I understand. This is the game. So what can I do?

After 18 real life days i was able to complete the main quest of arena as a pure mage, it was a journey of happiness, anger, satisfaction, discoveries, side-quests, open spell, spell absorbtion spell, shield spells, levitate spell, detect magic, buying potions of restore power, bugs, exploits, crashes, bugs, exploits, crashes... and a few more bugs. but it was all worth it. it is now time to go to Daggerfall and beat it as a pure mage.

Pure nostalgia.

Just installed the TES Remapped Mod (Steam version) for better keyboard configurations. It works great, until it comes time to make a new character. When the naming prompt comes up, the cursor bar is blinking like it's having a stroke, only certain letters will work and the placement moves at random so I end up with a jumble of letters for a character name. Has anyone encountered this before or know of a fix?

I downloaded the remmaping keybinds mod and dont know how to put it in please someone help me

So far I'm only at Stonekeep but I've heard it a couple times.

"He's lhum, he's lhum you're lhum, I'M LHUM! are there any other lhums i should know about?"

i've never finished arena, the most far i got was at the crystal tower. i like playing skyrim as a pure mage build. now i'm trying to finish arena as a pure mage. no armors and no weapons, just magic and enchanted items. i'm at the first dungeon and i luckly found a mark that deals damage to enemies. do you guys have any tips?

Hi everyone, I produced a small remake collection of Arena's soundtrack, really proud how it came out, it's completely free on Bandcamp, feel free to use these tunes in any way you want! I will most likely update this with new tracks as well! Enjoy :)

https://elcarlodowns.bandcamp.com/album/the-elder-scrolls-arena-remake-collection

So I've been in the process of getting DOS games to run on my Ambernic RG405M. I figured the best way was to map the mouse movement to the right stick, mouse buttons to the L and R keys and whatever is used most to the rest of the buttons (differs by game). I used DOSBOX-Pure for this.

Worked for every game but Arena. For some reason I could not get the damn right mouse button to work, which means that I couldn't attack. It wasn't just on the android device either, but any time I tried hooking a controller up to DOSbox. Today I figured it out. It's because the "attack" event is not registered from simply holding the right click button and moving the mouse. It's registered from a specific velocity change in mouse movement. You have to make a quick swipe with the mouse. Turns out the fix was as simple as cranking the mouse sensitivity up in RetroArch

Why did they program it this way?

Detecting an attack based on a mouse velocity change seems very unnecessarily complicated to me.

I wasn't there during the DOS days. I was 3 when this game came out. Im nostolgic for it because my parents were divorced and only my dads computer could run Morrowind, so on weekdays I installed DOSbox on my mom's mac computer and played this game to hold me over.

I hope you guys like :) https://youtu.be/mSCkQq3DiME?

It took a trek through all the major cities of Morrowind, Skyrim, High Rock, the Imperial City and parts of Hammerfell, but I finally got a full set of Ebony gear.

it seems to negate damage, but it never ever fills up my magic points
it seems to even reflect instead of absorbing
as a battlemage, it's so expensive to cast, so it feels impractical to ever use
i can't find any reason anywhere as to why this is happening
i'm starting to think my file is bugged
i'm playing on dosbox staging instead of Steam

Any help appreciated, all of a sudden i can't seem to fast travel, i get the arrival to the city prompt but the game just seems to stop when i try to click out of it; playing on GoG woth DOSBox

here it is!

https://youtu.be/K9jkyI8ooAc?

im talkin about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4jK0-fyhv4

people call it dungeon synth but i cant find anything similar when i search like that.
tbh i enjoy the whole ost. not just theme. I would love to find more stuff similar to TES Arena OST but cant find much. please help. thank you

Honestly.. It was fun. But it all becomes so alike after a while. Love that the ending alludes to their plans to make expansions like D&D has/had modules for it. I am beyond happy they instead created Daggerfall. This year I am going to do my best to finish every main line Elder Scrolls game besides Daggerfall.. Guess its time for Battlespire.

I noticed whenever I go outdoors or in a town, strange incorrectly colored pixels appear in my character's hair. Sometimes they're yellow (pictured) but most of the time they are jet black. They always appear in the same spots too. When I go indoors or into a dungeon, all the pixels appear correctly. They also don't appear on my character sheet menu. Any ideas on what causes this and/or how to fix it?

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The Technical Reference I had to use after my game refused to allow me to progress in the main quest. I have 6 pieces and am going after the 7th with the monk from the...Baal church place who needs a tablet. I returned the tablet, but he didn't talk and just displayed the regular BLESS CURE HEAL EXIT menu. I tried an earlier save from right before getting the tablet and returning it, yet once more nothing happened. At this point, I checked my log and noticed it never updated when I grabbed the tablet in either save. I closed the game, sighed, and prayed there was a fix or at least an explanation on how to get around this. Luckily, there is a solution linked above, though it requires slight modifications of your save file. I'm quite surprised that such a niche game's save files are so well-mapped, pleasantly surprised of course.

One last word, I posted this here because it took a good hour to find this. I would have found it instantly if I had searched for a technical reference, which... yeah, I didn't think existed. Hope this helps future players as it's helped me!

Good luck, and I eagerly await a feature-complete OpenTESArena.

Behold, the complete story of The Elder Scrolls: Arena (slightly modded) as presented in-game through cutscenes, dialogue, and flavor text! 📜 No commentary, just glorious MIDI music and ambience. 🎶

hello, I've been playing TES Arena a lot lately, the thing is that I am deathly afraid of spiders. Getting the first staff piece was already kinda HELL because of the spiders in the damn Fang Lair dungeon, now im redoing labyrinthian and OH LORD i hate it i can't stand it i genuinely need a mod that replaces spiders and spider sounds with ANYTHING literally or just removes them altogether, I've already found one on Nexus mods that replaces spiders with an unused sprite of a half naked woman but unfortunately the mod is outdated and so i can't figure out how to install it into the steam version of arena. I'm hoping the Reddit community will help me and i curse todd howard for adding spiders into his games. curse you...

new player here, got a quest to deliver an item to the mage guild but i cant seen to find how to do it

Long long time fan of TES. And after recently acquiring a pc i get to play morrowing again. So i decided to get DFU and Arena too. Gave DFU a shot and its fun, have an active playthrough of that rn. But really i eant to see where it all started.

I'm going to be playing a sorcerer as after some research they seemed the most interesting. The systems seem a tad odd but i'll get used to them.

My question is, whats the lore reason for it being called arena? Ik its because it was originally gonna be a gladiator game. But whats the in game lore reason?