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Dunheved
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Proof reading the new materials?

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 16:53

Is it too late to mention any points in the newer pdfs or has the printing been set in motion?

Rivendell
page 3 Title for graphic has overveiw.
page 4 THE ENTRANCE HALL line 17 "lead" should be "leads" OR " A corridor" should be "Corridors" (probably the latter)
page 4 THE ENTRANCE HALL line 19 "leads" should be "lead"

and that is all I found!
 
Dunheved
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STARTER SET Hobbit TN concern

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 17:20

On the Starter Set Rules
page 9, the Target Number is said to be 20 minus Attribute. And Paladin Took, STRENGTH = 3, is given as an example. Yet his Strength TN is then given as 13 in the example on page 9
1. His Strength TN should be 17, If the TN is 20 - strength.
2. on the pre-gen STATS sheet his Strength TN has been calculated as TN = 15.


It looks as if the intent for the Starter Rules and Characters was to have an easier set of TN numbers. Instead of 20 minus attribute; ALL the pre gen STATS sheets appear to be calculated as 18 minus attribute. So an easy fix would be to replace the 20 on page 9 with 18 and a note to say that this is a deliberately easier game arrangement for the Starter Set. At the same time the example for Paladin Took can be amended to be TN = 18 - 3 = 15
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gyrovague
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Re: Proof reading the new materials?

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 17:25

Apparently the feedback regarding the phrase "on the contrary" was not fully embraced.

Also, I found this phrasing odd:

"If the players are careful enough, for example, by following the brigands’ tracks and trying to stay one step ahead of them..." (p. 224)

I assume it's a figurative use of "stay one step ahead" but sounds funny in the context of following somebody.
 
Dunheved
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Re: Proof reading the new materials?

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 17:30

Core Rules
Page 224 also has a single instance of the typo
Loresmaster
where the character 's' has snuck inside the word.

LATER EDIT: Please compare Gilraen's fellowship Bonus listed on Core rules page 52 STARTING PATRONS table (zero) with the same bonus on page 219 (+1)
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Re: Proof reading the new materials?

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 17:36

small mistake "TOR_Rivendell.pdf" page 3 OVERVEIW (left upper corner of the image) schould be OVERVIEW.
 
Dunheved
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Re: Proof reading the new materials?

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 17:37

Reading today's Update ( #34) has printing started for all the materials, or just Core Rule book?
If the "horse has bolted", then there is less of an urgency to report?
 
Ruadawn
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Re: Proof reading the new materials?

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 17:46

I find it pretty ironic that a game based on the legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien should be marred by so much muddled writing, sloppy editing, and awkward non-standard turns of phrase (including, but not limited to, "on the contrary").

The prose of TOR was an issue with the first edition, and it's a issue with this edition. Certainly, an issue for me. As Tolkien himself said in another context, "I am cursed by acute sensibility in such matters".
 
baldrick0712
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Re: Proof reading the new materials?

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 18:15

What a pity, particularly in this day and age of pretty decent spelling and gramma checking software.
 
Spat
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Re: Proof reading the new materials?

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 19:22

page 17, Who Rolls : "except when when something involves everyone in the group."
I've just finished checking Ruins of Symbaroum Alpha which was with many errors, and I open the pdf of TOR 2E and find this after a few minutes.
I hope this is the only only one (I am not making a typo, I am scared I will be pissed off by too many errors). Come on Free League, take your time to reread your work.
You want to collect money of course, but don't mess with the basic requirements of buyers !
 
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Re: Proof reading the new materials?

Fri 01 Oct 2021, 19:43

This is not an error, but it is a change from TOR 1e: I see that the Halls of the Dwarves in the Blue Mountains have been moved roughly 60 miles south of the head of the Little Lune. This is nearer to my personal estimate for the location of the Halls of Thorin Oakenshield. A location is omitted for the Mines of the Dwarves south of the Gulf of Lune, possibly because the mines should be spread out over more than one single location.
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