Typos, Errata , Corrections, and Clarifications

[Lord Twig]

P123, 2nd column, 2nd paragraph, 1st sentence: "Once a spell is dismissed, it must be reacquired the sorcery from your character's grimoire."

Doesn't sound right.

Also, regarding sorcery. You can have a number of spells equal to your Int, but on P128 under levels it says: "If the number is a range, the spell's level is variable, and the players can choose how many level of the spell their characters have in memory and are able to cast."

What does that mean exactly? It doesn't matter what the level of the spell is to store it in your Int, each spell only takes 1 Int, correct? Is there any reason you wouldn't always just have the maximum in mind? If you did have, say, Sorcerer's Strength 3 in mind, could you cast it at just level one instead? Or would you always have to use level 3?

[Atgxtg]

Originally Posted by Lord Twig

P123, 2nd paragraph, 1st sentence: "Once a spell is dismissed, it must be reacquired the sorcery from your character's grimoire."

Doesn't sound right.

Also, regarding sorcery. You can have a number of spells equal to your Int, but on P128 under levels it says: "If the number is a range, the spell's level is variable, and the players can choose how many level of the spell their characters have in memory and are able to cast."

What does that mean exactly? It doesn't matter what the level of the spell is to store it in your Int, each spell only takes 1 Int, correct? Is there any reason you wouldn't always just have the maximum in mind? If you did have, say, Sorcerer's Strength 3 in mind, could you cast it at just level one instead? Or would you always have to use level 3?

Sounds like RQ2. In RQ2 you could "know" any number of spells, but only have your INT in spell points ready for use. So if you had an INT of 14 and knew Heal 6, Protection 6 and Bladesharp 4, you couldn't keep them all us at full value.

Maybe that is the intent?

[Lord Twig]

Originally Posted by Atgxtg

Sounds like RQ2. In RQ2 you could "know" any number of spells, but only have your INT in spell points ready for use. So if you had an INT of 14 and knew Heal 6, Protection 6 and Bladesharp 4, you couldn't keep them all us at full value.

Maybe that is the intent?

Possibly, but that is not what the rules say. I believe these were taken from Stormbringer 5. How do they work there?

[The Venomous Pao]

The Tribesman profession lists the Hide skill twice - once as a specifically defined skill and once in the "pick two" list.

The Melee Weapons skill lists "Club" as a specialization, explaining that maces are covered, but the Melee Weapons table lists maces with the "Mace" skill. It's decipherable, but slightly confusing.

Where appropriate on the weapons tables +db or +1/2db are listed. That's cool, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere near the tables that explains just what db is. I felt like an idiot when I figured it out, but I was annoyed when looking for it. It seemed to me that some sort of superscript (numbers, asterisks & daggers, whatever) that pointed to footnotes for the tables might provide the same info with slightly less "chart junk." In a perfect world, the thing to do would be only to mark weapons that don't add the db (on the melee table, anyway) since those are the exception rather than the rule.

Step Six (which I adore) is listed in the numbered walkthrough (obviously) but is omitted from the more detailed look at each part of character creation. It seemed like they might be worthy of at least a passing mention there as well. Then again, I can understand not "wasting" the space on repeat info. So this is just a thought.

On the ordered character sheet walkthrough, Step Five (Derived Characteristics) - the second item gives a formula but doesn't tell you what Derived Characteristic the formula is for. It's HP, but that took a little work to figure out. Oh, and man did I love this thing, with its call-outs from the character sheet. Best thing I've seen for character creation in a long, long time.

That's all I've got just yet. On the whole the book is excellent. Cheers to all involved.

[The Venomous Pao]

Another spot that seems confusing/contradictory- Starting Super Powers: Power Budget (p.141)

This section states that the POW characteristic becomes the power budget and may be modified through power modifiers. Then it says that the GM can further modify the budget based on campaign power level. Cool so far. But the examples of how the budget gets modified all reference "highest initial unmodified characteristic" instead of POW as the base value for the power budget.

That move away from POW continues in the rest of the section.

So... is it POW or is it whichever characteristic is highest? I have no problem with making a call on my own, of course. But I'm curious what the intent is. And I suppose it would be nice if that were clarified for others who might get hung up more than I'm willing to be

[Zane]

Weapons Table again...

Rifle, Bolt-Action
SIZ/Enc 2.0

If I understand how this works, that makes it 2 foot long. That is a tad short, even for a 22. It probably should be 3.0, same as "Rifle, Sporting", or slightly longer.

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by Zane

Weapons Table again...

Rifle, Bolt-Action
SIZ/Enc 2.0

If I understand how this works, that makes it 2 foot long. That is a tad short, even for a 22. It probably should be 3.0, same as "Rifle, Sporting", or slightly longer.

SIZ doesn't equate to a 1 SIZ = 1 foot ratio. It's more a measure of bulk and is admittedly vaguely defined.

However, it should likely be 3.0, like the sporting rifle, a change I'll note.

[The Venomous Pao]

No acrobatics skill?

Juggle is listed twice as a specialty under Perform. And that's on top of it being used as the "acting w/o skill" example. Which one of you really likes to juggle?

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by The Venomous Pao

No acrobatics skill?

That was one of those that we went back and forth on, but eventually decided to just fold under an Agility roll's functionality. It's easy enough to create a new skill in BRP, though.

Originally Posted by The Venomous Pao

Juggle is listed twice as a specialty under Perform. And that's on top of it being used as the "acting w/o skill" example. Which one of you really likes to juggle?

I've got the double-listing, and addressed it being used in the caption.

And anyone who's played Stormbringer 1st edition will know why Juggling is the skill to have.

[Atgxtg]

Jason,
Not to nitpick, but the book refers to a battleship as a modern battleship. Technically there is no such thing. Battleships have been obsolete for over 60 years and the last ones were made during WWII.

The "problem" is see is that if a Battleship is considered "modern" then someone mind think that is is concurrent with "modern" tanks. Unless you intended for a modern tank to be a WWII era tank.

Maybe late model or post-Dreadnought Battleship or just plain Battleship would be better?