[projectaon] Editor's Companion Submission
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Date: 01:23:58 on Monday, February 7, 2005
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(ft) 04wotw gamerulz: Endurance Points paragraph [DED: Argh! Again, the
sentance "Add *any* ENDURANCE points gained from playing previous Grey Star
*adventures* {plural} to your initial score of 30..." is rather problematic. I
can't possibly see how it would make sense to add EPs from all three of the
previous Grey Star books! Surely it must mean the *last* successfully completed
book? (So why use the phrasing as printed, then?). Also, it's standard practice
in the Lone Wolf rules to restore your EPs to their original total when
carrying them over (Dever explicitly endorses this in a Lone Wolf Club
Newsletter) ... but I would hazard a guess that this isn't intended here.
(Although the phrase "...points GAINED from playing previous...adventures"
certainly doesn't clarify this - the phrase "left over from" would surely be
the intended meaning?) ... Adding your restored EP total would just be too much
of a bonus, I feel, and spoil gameplay.
Hows about the following footnote:
"The most likely interpretation of the rules here is that the player can take
their final ENDURANCE points total from the end of their last successfully
completed Grey Star adventure, and add 30 to this figure. Note that in the
rules for the Lone Wolf books, it is standard practice to restore one's
ENDURANCE points to their original total when carrying them across from one
adventure to the next, but this does not appear to be appropriate here in this
scenario with the Moonstone."]
(ft) 04wotw gamerulz: Willpower paragraph [DED: I find the sentence "If you
possess unused WILLPOWER points from earlier Grey Star adventures, add them to
the 50 WILLPOWER points which possession of the the Moonstone grants you" a bit
problematic - it clearly says "adventures", plural - but surely it can only
mean the *last* adventure you successfully completed? And of course, there's
the whole "what WP score do I actually use - your initial total? the score you
had at the end of the book?........... on balance, I'd suggest the following
footnote:
"The most likely interpretation of the rules here is that the player can take
their final WILLPOWER total from the end of their last successfully completed
Grey Star adventure, and add 50 to this figure."]
(ft) 04wotw gamerulz: Combat Skill paragraph [DED: Proposed footnote: "This
implies that you must pick a new COMBAT SKILL from the Random Number Table even
if have already completed previous Grey Star adventure(s). This conflicts with
the rules for the Lone Wolf books, where you can carry over your score from a
successfully completed previous adventure. For the sake of consistency, players
may wish to carry over their existing CS score from the last Grey Star book
they completed."]
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