The Arcanum (Atlantis)

[2] In the 1980s a group of friends — Vernie Taylor, Steven Cordovano, and Stephan Michael Sechi — who played a highly customized version of Dungeons & Dragons, decided to publish the details of their new character classes and spells.

The following year, the books of The Compleat Series were combined with a new role-playing system into one central rulebook, The Arcanum, a 156-page softcover book by Sechi and Taylor, with artwork by Sechi, Joe Bouza, Ken Canossi, Pete Ciccone, David Cooper, Scott Lee, Roy McDonald, and Katherine McHone.

The setting was a bit more unique, as it portrayed an antediluvian world of myth (though it also contained some off-key elements including typical fantasy races of D&D and even druids).

The following year, doing business as ZiLa Games, Ladage ran a Kickstarter to re-release The Arcanum in a new, cleaned up and re-edited form.

74., and commented that "Overall, The Arcanum seems quite adequate as volume one of a new FRPG [fantasy role-playing game], and could prove valuable as a supplement for other FRPGs, especially those deficient in alchemical information.