[projectaon] Re: 27v Errata
- From: David Davis <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:28:12 +0100
re: the mindblast/Mindblast/mind-blast: surely it still is the Basic Kai
Discipline of Mindblast that is being referred to here?
David
(er) 235, 281: mindblast -> Mindblast
[jb: These don't seem to refer to a Kai Discipline but to a generic blast
of mind energy (e.g. "You launch a mindblast at the angry sergeant..."). I
can't find any other similar examples in the books. Instead, how about
"mind blast" in order to prevent confusion?]
I know it's being picky, but would a hyphenated form 'mind-blast' be better?
On 20 August 2013 11:00, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19/08/2013 22:27, Jonathan Blake wrote:
>
>> Here are all of the pending errata for Vampirium. I'll work on getting
>> a good set of test editions out there later this week.
>>
>
> Woo-hoo!
>
> Rejected what was to be rejected; Fixed what was to be fixed. With today's
> addendum, that leaves just five unresolved issues. Brilliant!! :-)
>
> Just a few thoughts of my own.
>
> (er/ft) 45, 83: he will accept 1 Weapon, 3 Gold Crowns, and 1 Backpack
> Item [lm: what if, for example, you aren't carrying a weapon?]
> [jb: Good point. We could only suggest to the reader to make suggestions
> according to what they think is fair, something like, "If you lack one or
> more of these items, substitute other items of equal value."]
>
> Trouble is here, 'of equal value' could be ambiguous, since items are not
> given monetary values. Can we succinctly explain that 1 Weapon = 3 GC = 1
> Backpack Item, so that if you are lacking something, substitute 3 GCs
> --or-- 1 BI ? It'd be better not as a footnote, IMHO, but if that's the
> best way of explaining this without detracting from the narrative...
>
>
> (er) 47: [jc: This is a bit weird. Maybe sort out the chooses
> ascending: 0-3, 4-8, 9]
> [jb: Hmm, that is weird, but I can't say that's it's wrong either.
> Thoughts?]
>
> Joe is here saying that for this particular RNT pick you want to pick low,
> for some reason. I suppose there's nothing wrong with the list backwards,
> so we could opt to leave as-is.
>
>
> (er/ft) 131: You must now erase half of all the Arrows you carry,
> rounding the figure up to the nearest whole number where appropriate. [lm:
> are you to round up the half that you subtract or the total number of
> arrows that you carry?]
> [jb: Good question. I could only find a couple of other places where the
> author talks about rounding numbers up or down (is my regex-fu failing
> me?). Both cases (03btng:192 and 04wotw:125) were in the Grey Star books.
> All cases that I found suffer from a similar problem. I tend to think you
> should round the number of arrows lost, but that's just me. What would we
> say in a footnoote?]
>
> For once, I have no real opinion in this matter!
>
>
> (er) 219: [bk: To add another potential erratum, the random number
> results in section 219 don't make sense. It's certainly understandable that
> Assimilance would protect you from insta-death, but why should it lead on
> average to greater Endurance loss? Should we make the order of the sections
> 123, 300, 192, 254?]
> [jb: ]
>
> We've left a similar instance alone in a recent release (I forget the
> details...it was in Book 24 or 25 I think), and the EP loss is slight, so
> I'd opt to leave this as-is.
>
>
> (er) 235, 281: mindblast -> Mindblast
> [jb: These don't seem to refer to a Kai Discipline but to a generic blast
> of mind energy (e.g. "You launch a mindblast at the angry sergeant..."). I
> can't find any other similar examples in the books. Instead, how about
> "mind blast" in order to prevent confusion?]
>
> I know it's being picky, but would a hyphenated form 'mind-blast' be
> better?
>
> --
> Simon Osborne
> Project Aon
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