Which totem you activate in Avowed will depend on your specific build ... and Shock - making it a versatile, all-purpose effect, albeit somewhat unpredictable. Most enemies are not immune to ...

But it was conspicuously absent from Obsidian's latest RPG, Avowed, and I am not the only person to wonder why. I had a chance to ask game director Carrie Patel why this was the case during a post ...

It led me to question the mechanical purpose of attributes in conversation ... It took me some time to learn how Avowed's dialogue and skills systems overlap – or rather, how they don't.