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TYPO: On the Back Cover:

the date of the campaign appears to be 1965. And should be 2965.



INCONSISTENCY (Minor)
the phrase "Great-uncle" is used three times: text pages 11 12 and 13. (pdf file pages 15 16 and 17).
Great-Uncle
great-uncle
great-uncle

Maybe make it consistent by using Great-uncle throughout?

Yeah, I did wonder about that 1965 date as well!?! I thought it might be an offshoot to play during that period of the Third Age... guess not?

The core rulebook lists: "It is the year 2965 of the Third Age and the Shadow is returning...."

... Does it matter... .:. Walts

DESCRIPTION MISMATCH

Page 20 of the text - which is page 24 of the pdf file - has a description of a statue. The text says what each arm of the figure of the king is doing. But the picture of this has the hands swapped around.
Suggest checking if the text should have "right hand" and "left hand" swapped over to match the picture.

DESCRIPTION MISMATCH (minor)
Page 21 of the text - page 25 of the pdf file - the description of the lair uses both "cellars" and "cellar" for the same space. I suggest that "cellars" is made "cellar" for consistency.

p110 -Adversaries pierce rating is 204, should presumably be 20.

ODD SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION
Page 32 book text - page 36 of the pdf file - column 1 last paragraph THE NORTHERN SEAS has the following " ... wild waves prevent most of the Player-heroes to sleep comfortably"

Which may be rewritten as " ... wild waves prevent most of the Player-heroes from sleeping comfortably"

GEOGRAPHY TYPO?
Page 33 of book text - page 37 of pdf file - column 1 final paragraph, "Background ", has the following

"The Isle of the Mother is the smallest and westernmost of the Western Isles, the last land east of the Blessed Realm..." of course if you travel eastwards from the Blessed Realm you reach this place first, but then you will get to all lands across Eriador, then Rhovanion and Rhun - and so on.

But in fact it would EITHER be the FIRST land EAST of the Blessed Realm; OR it would be the most westerly Land BEFORE the Blessed Realm.

Page 31: Voyage Events Table. Feat die roll of 2-3 (Bad Weather). It reads: "If the roll fails, everyone in the Company gains 1 Fatigue." However, under "Fatigue Points Gained" it gives a result of "2". Maybe I just don't know how to read this?

Page 31: Voyage Events Table. Feat die roll of 2-3 (Bad Weather). It reads: "If the roll fails, everyone in the Company gains 1 Fatigue." However, under "Fatigue Points Gained" it gives a result of "2". Maybe I just don't know how to read this?

This is not an error: as noted these are resolved just like journey events, so the "Fatigue Points Gained" column applies on every event (except those where passing the event roll is noted as avoiding the fatigue, as with journey events). So the "If the roll fails, everyone in the company gains 1 Fatigue" is additional fatigue for failing a skill roll. Hope this helps!

Page 59: Confusion about Jon-a-Leaping's relationship with Captain Gurnow

The player-heroes are supposed to ransom Jon-a-leaping for Borlas based on the fact that Jon-a-leaping is friends with Gurnow:
"Now, it’s known (not least through Jon’s own protests and threats) that Jon is a friend of Captain Gurnow, the ruler of Tharbad."
However, in a later section Jon-a-Leaping claims that "[...] any suggestion that he’s quarrelled with Gurnow is nonsense!", although there is no reason to suggest that in the text by this point.
This is only cleared up later on page 60 when "Jon admits that his bluster about his friendship with Gurnow is a lie".

Now I'm confused about whether the quest giving leader of the settlement suggests to ransom Jon because he is a friend of Gurnows (not true but based on their info they would not know) or because he is wanted in Tharbad (true but the text does not indicate the people who caught Jon know this, since he only reveals this himself later). I think the reference to the quarrel with Gurnow on page 59 should be deleted to avoid unnecessary confusion. Jon's lying about his friendship with the leader of Tharbad becomes clear enough once his demeanor changes upon approaching the city.

Pg 21, Nelly Longarms:
- Mother knows best: Can this be applied to Nelly herself? If not, probably worth specifying this.
- It would be nice if Nelly's Dreadful spells ability was renamed as something else (Dreadful Spells already exists as a different fell ability).

Pg 37, Meeting the Mourner:
How does this interact with raising an heir? Does it supercede the cap of 20 points? Does it allow you to add 5 points to get closer to the cap? I would assume the latter, but in the eventuality someone already has 20 points invested in an heir would it allow them to start with 25? Not an error per se, more something that requires some clarification.

Pg 38, Unhoused Wraiths:
Probably good to errata the core rulebook to include the specific abilities for each undead on their core stat block and remove the statement about all undead having deathless, heartless and thing of terror (or make a comment on Unhoused wraiths that they don't follow the general rules for undead adversaries within their specific stat block).

Pg 40, surviving a battle with the Wood-wights: Consider changing "countless Unhoused Wraiths" to a specific number per player hero.

Pg 40 and Pg 78, the Hero's sword & Snava's blades:
Do players need to spend Valour to unlock these abilities or are the weapons obtained with all abilities active?

Pg 52, Osmer the Wizard "Fireworks" ability:
This seems overpowered. It's an AoE ability that has over a 90% chance to hit and damage everyone in close combat or rearward (LM's choice) twice in the same turn (once when initially applied and again at the end of combat round). These tables were designed for skill endeavors, where a player fails a skill test and is then subjected to the outcome of the failure. Consider allowing players an ATHLETICS test to dodge the fireworks.

Pg 79, Catching up with Hultmar:
The method for calculating the number of Orcs that arrive per turn is to roll a Feat die, divide by 2 and round down. Consider changing this to a system per player-hero.

Pg 104, Commanding the spirits:
The box states that Snava can call "bodiless spirits" from the Well. Is this referencing the bodiless wight ability snava has that provides players with -1d, or Unhoused wraiths, or something else?