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EP Core Rulebook Errata
Sun, 2009-08-23 16:43
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RobBoyle
EP Core Rulebook Errata
"Novacrabs are ideal for hazardous work environments as well as vacworker, police, or bodyguard duties, giving their ten 2-meter long legs, massive claws, and chitinous armor."
Giving should be given. Moar as I read on. Being the freeform bastard I am, I went straight for character concepts. : )
Edit - Page 317, Smart Dust.
"When a character dumps a packet of smart dust in a room, it will cover every surface in the room within 20 minutes, including all furniture and the insides of every drawer and other space that is not airtight."
Awkward sentence, but 'other spaces that are not airtight' since at this point it's more of a list of places.
Curious, but on page 323, for BTX, since the description gives it as BTX-squared was the exponent supposed to appear on the BTX listing?
Page 303, Combined Sensor Ystems. Systems, wasn't it?
Page 330, Scavenger Tech.
They include plasma torches, laser cutters, pneumatic jaws, and smart tools like spanners and wrenches that can be adopted to a wide array of connections and fittings. [High]
Adopted should be adapted.
IF YOU WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SPOILER SECTION, DO KINDLY BUGGER OFF NOW.
Page 359,
Social Engineers: Knick-named the Ministry of Disinformation, social engineers provide the scapegoating and plausible deniability that is required by Firewall and its sentinels.
-> Nick-named.
Page 372,
...allowing the exsurgent to levitate themself or other objects by creating repulsing fields.
-> To levitate themselves.
-tF, who might have to point out English isn't actually his first language.
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Rob Boyle :: Posthuman Studios
Page 150 - Morphing Disorder - Cost: 10 (Level 1)... - shouldn't it be a bonus? It's a negative trait...
Page 272 - INTEGRATION TEST Table - There's no difference between Severe Failure and Failure - shouldn't it be -20?
Layers don't work in PDF as they do in the Character Sheet.
Can people who bought this PDF count on getting one with the errata applied as soon as it's published?
And can I edit this comment for further mistakes found, or write a new one?
Morphing Disorder should indeed say Bonus, not Cost.
p. 272 is not an errata -- there is a difference. Failure applies -10 to *physical actions* (only), Severe Failure applies -10 to *all* actions (physical and mental).
Future PDF updates will include errata, yes. The PDF already includes a few errata items that the hardcopy books don't have.
Rob Boyle :: Posthuman Studios
New comments are preferred, as they're easier to spot.
Rob Boyle :: Posthuman Studios
Also, there are no damage tables in the quick reference section at the back of the book. Why they aren't just integrated into the weapon range tables is another good question, but just the separate damage table would be nice.
Page 129 - "A complete list of positive and negative qualities for - your cha_acter’s ego or morph. ■ p. 145" - where is the R?
You could surely use a better editor... ;)
Are You going to make some errata sheet to put inside each book? And when are You planning to reprint it?
As for now it seems to me that printing the PDF on my own is more profitable than getting a book from the States...
Rob Boyle :: Posthuman Studios
We will keep an updated errata list on the Resources page, which we will regularly update. I'm actually working on that right now. The errata will also be fixed any time we reprint the hardcopy or update the PDF.
We don't have a reprint scheduled yet, since the first printing is still on its way from overseas, and won't hit stores for some time yet. When it sells out, we'll reprint. Hopefully that will be very soon :)
Rob Boyle :: Posthuman Studios
I actually haven't read Pushing Ice yet, but I do believe it was in another Reynolds book that I first saw the term "femtotechnology" and went, "Hrm, I have to look that up." The possibilities for femtotech are pretty amazing: http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/05/speculation-on-possible-path-to-passive.html
Rob Boyle :: Posthuman Studios
- p.8, first column, first line: it's/its confusion
- p.8, first column, halfway down: proprieception -> proprioception
- p.9, first column, two-thirds down: reult -> result
- p.9, second column, second full paragraph: teraherz -> terahertz (this occurs once again later in the book, on p.311)
- p.11, first column, first full paragraph: descendents -> descendants
- p.11, first column, second full paragraph: wormholes -> wormhole
- p.11, first column, third full paragraph: perservered -> persevered, reclamers -> reclaimers
- p.13, first column, first full paragraph: unphased -> unfazed
I'm digging the heck out of the book, though! (And, yes, I'm a semipro copyeditor; why do you ask? :P)- p. 23, second column, "Mercenaries" paragraph: seeth -> seethe
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p. 193. "Attacker has reach advantage" is listed as a modifier for RANGED combat?!
p. 196. When a vehicle crashes, do the passengers benefit from its armor? "Collisions" and "Attacking vehicle passengers" seem to disagree on the matter.
p. 310. Does the synthomorph alternative armor stack with worn armor without penalty? The rules are unclear on the matter.
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p. 197. Charging does not incur any modifiers past the -10 for running.
So, does charging give a bonus to the attack roll, or to the damage inflicted only?
p. 200. Microgravity habitats gravity description seems strange at best. Gravity starts working once you get near the rotating wall? How in the six worlds is that working? What is the force that starts affecting the character out of thin air?
p. 204. Grapple rules - "To break free, a grappled character must take a Complex Action and succeed in either an Opposed Unarmed Combat Test or an Opposed SOM x 3 Test, though the subdued character suffers a –30 modifier on this test."
Does the modifier apply for both tests or the Opposed SOMx3 only?
p. 208. "If the cortical stack is not retrievable, the character still be re-instantiated from an archived backup".
Missed 'may' here?
p. 214. "Players that have become schizophrenic are only marginally functional and only for short periods of time until they have the disorder treated". While technically true, I don't believe this is what was meant to be said.
Go ahead, do better, and amaze everyone.
Cheers!
-tF
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"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
Its what the Proof-Readers are for, and from the looks of it I agree they could of done a slightly better job. If every writer was capable of perfectly writing bookloads of text without any mistakes then the Proof-Readers would be out of a job, which they are not. But decreeing that that both the quality of the writing, and the quality of the rule system is poor simply because of this isn't exactly productive.
And remember that what we currently have (400 or so pages) is almost certainly not the entire written product. It will of gone through countless edits, cuts and workarounds. If my experience is anything to go by I imagine that there is enough extra content that got cut to fill quite a few pages. Mistakes are bound to crop up.
Earth hardly qualifies as such, I believe.
"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
Hell, I actually ended up reverse engineering the system based on 20 bleeding damage per minute/1 bleeding damage per action turn, instead of figuring it out from the explanation.
One minute is said to be 20 action turns, and each action turn is further divided into 4 action phases, I think.
However, this means that each action turn is 3 seconds long, and each action phase is 750 milliseconds long. I have trouble believing that someone can perform a complex action, such as reloading or disabling a bomb; or three quick actions, such as talking(three times!), in 3/4ths of a second.
It makes a lot more sense if each action phase is 3 seconds long. This means each turn would be 12 seconds [4 action phases] and each minute would be 5 turns.
The rules only state that you can mount a weapon externally, internally, on an articulated mount, or a mount with a limited degree of movement.
But there is no important information regarding combat rules or the effect mounting a weapon has on the weapon stats. Does a mounted rifle [a two-handed weapon] penalize the character firing it with the one arm it's mounted in? What about mounting it in the chest, or the shoulder? How does a mounted weapon reload, is the magazine internal? Is it the same size as normal weapon magazines? Does the character have to spend as much time reloading a mounted gun as other characters do with unmounted weapons? Can a character punch someone and fire a mounted weapon at the same time?
There is also a lack of combat rules regarding multiple limbs. Can a character take 4 arms, and then use those 4 arms to carry out 4 unarmed attacks? Or is it just one unarmed attack? If it's only one unarmed attack then shouldn't additional arms do additional damage?
And what about tails? For example, if I want to re-create a Xenomorph from Aliens - which has a spikey tail. Obviously it's prehensile, but does it add additional unarmed attacks?
"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
Page 46:
"Less than a year from its first
operation, the hypercorp opened
the gate to “gatecrashers:” explorers
who risk their lives to see what
lies beyond."
Why :?
The only radioactive isotope I know of which could sufficiently power a hand-held RTG and laser is Polonium-210, but that is extremely toxic to humans.
Thankfully we have the power of Unobtanium and Plotanium for such things!
"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
There is nothing complex about an action turn being divided into action phases and noone of the people I know had any problems understanding it. Have you played SR? Same system here.
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