[projectaon] Re: Errors: Eight from the Cauldron
- From: "David Davis" <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:21:46 -0000
Oh I see! Sorry I wasn't really paying attention ;)
Well, I don't see any problem with it not being on the list that you can
carry over to
the Grand Master series - there's loads of exciting goodies not on that
list.
It was just Dever striking a balance between realism and game play.
So - can you just clarify for me - the later "real" Platinum Amulets -
where do they turn up and where are they referenced for being used?
(I'm a bit confused when you say the Kazan Oud one "is never referenced
again",
because surely any later books' section that says "...unless you are wearing
a Platinum Amulet"
could be taken to refer to the Kazan Oud one?)
Amulets usually have some kind of "magical" property which could have
resulted from a "spell" -
if Zahda cast the original spell and his power (and Doomstone) are gone,
then perhaps that
could rationalise why his Platinum Amulet no longer works?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Osborne" <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:15 PM
Subject: [projectaon] Re: Errors: Eight from the Cauldron
David Davis wrote:
I would say call it "Platinum Amulet from Kazan-Oud" - IIRC that is the
way Dever
himself clarified the names of a few Items at one point or another during
the books
(ie give the original name as per the text but also add where it was from
when mentioned in the later book)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Osborne"
<outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Everything has been resolved except for the strange Platinum Amulet from
Book 7 that can't be used in this book. We could footnote 48 and 59 in
this book, but would a better solution be to alter Book 7 Sections 15
and 90 from "Platinum Amulet" -> "Platinum Kazan-Oud Amulet" or
"Kazan-Oud Amulet"?
But the point is, it's never referenced again, ever. Even though it claims
to help you with enduring extreme heat, which could come in handy in two
places in Book 9 (sections 48 and 59), it isn't referenced and doesn't
help you. It only works in Section 90 of Castle Death. So calling it a
Platinum Amulet, which item usually helps in enduring extreme temperatures
(cf. Books 16-20), is confusing because it doesn't help in Books 8-15. You
can't even take it over into the Grand Master series. The easiest way to
"fix" this discrepancy would be to alter its name in the two places it
occurs in Book 7 to definitely disambiguate it from the proper Platinum
Amulets of the later books. ;-)
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Simon Osborne
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