Synthmorph Activist, p190, seems to have the Advantages of an Octomorph for no particular reason.

CodeBreaker wrote:

Page 43, very last paragraph. It looks like there was the beginning of a sentance, but it got cut off. Also the formatting is a bit strange.

The first of the last two sentences begins with the word "These". Since the extra word is "These", my guess is that it was going to be a repeat. edit: Nope.. I'm wrong.

AdamJury wrote:

Whoops. One last CS4 -> CS5 bug that I didn't catch in the franticness yesterday. The last paragraph, fully, is: Within the past three years, genehackers have produced several more complex life-forms that are similarly adapted for life in the Venusian clouds. Because oxygen levels are still extremely low and are unlikely to rise significantly for several decades, all of these creatures are photosynthetic. The most abundant are jelly-floats, flimsy balloon-like jellyfish creatures that consist of oxygen gas bags up to a meter across, below which hang slender tendrils they use to feed on the larger forms of air plankton. Jelly-floats are just now being seeded within air plankton populations, so it is too early gauge their success. Even larger and more active are the delicate flying octopi, which obtain their lift from gas bags up to 3 meters across and use jets of compressed Venusian air to propel themselves at speeds of up to 20 kph. These creatures are designed to feed on the jelly-floats and, when released, will be the top predators of the Venusian ecosystem. Genehackers have also created other more active creatures, including muscular fliers like the predatory cloud mantas. These active life-forms require an oxygen atmosphere, however, and so can only be found in the terraforming menagerie on Aphrodite Prime.

Page 163: Steel Morph (Masked Variant) This morph is missing its Credit Cost line.

Makes sense for the rules, I guess, but in my campaigns it'll be a little more expensive than the standard (that 1,000-credit Synthetic Mask isn't free, and this model is less common). :) Colin

CodeBreaker wrote:

Page 26 - "Given the increase in mind operations and general surface explorations, however, the possibility of disturbing something that has remained so far dormant continues to be a risk." Should be "increase in mining operation"? Mind operations doesn't really make sense, and the context of the sidebar is about mining.

"Mind operations" could referee to remote telepresence & "radiocontrol" explorations /operations methodsrather than Mining. . Laser pointers, lazerscans & radiocommunication might also awake things dormant. Green lazers & some other lazer pointers are beeing outlawed in many places IRL -due to prankster saboteurs that direct them against vehicles & persons.

Page 143, under the Playing Nice? sidebar, third paragraph, first sentence: Even if you bought your way off the planet, you were mostly likely at the Consortium's mercy." Should be "most likely."

pg 32: The Military Tensions box covers the page number

Fair enough. I looked at in contrast to pg 51, where the box sits behind the number-bar.

So, any update on a pdf of the errata? :) Colin

Note the Q-Morph writeup in Sunward (p. 163, left column). Fluff paragraphs states: "...and completely unable to function in temperatures below 250 C." Now, that line implies that the Q-Morph is using the Positive Trait of "High-Temperature Operation" (p. 165, left column), as only that trait 
states that a morph given the advantage starts having issues once exposed to temps below 250 C. 
 (It starts losing COO points on a per-minute basis.) On the other hand, the Q-Morph's sluggish Movement Rate as a Walker (2/4) implies that "Extreme Heat Shielding" should ALSO be included in the 
Enhancements section for Q-Morphs. (The Q-Morph is currently the slowest of all Morphs... I think.) However, the only heat-related item in the stat-block for the Q-Morph, was the Enhancement of "Extreme Heat Shielding". In short, the Q-Morph Fluff+Stats seem to imply that BOTH the Positive Trait "High-Temperature Operation", as well as the Enhancement of "Extreme Heat Shielding" were added into the final stats of the Q-Morph, due to the fluff-described penalty, and the stat-blocks' slow Walker Movement Rate. Why would one build the "Extreme Heat Shielding" enhancement into a Morph, if the Morph already has the Positive Trait "High-Temperature Operation"? The only real bonus that I can see, is that it jacks up Durability by 25%. That IS a pretty big jump for Durability, but jeez, at the cost of HALF one's mobility? Any thoughts?

Inquiry: Any updates on this being handled in an official fashion? Sunward has been out for a while now.

Well, my bad, sorry. :) I did a search for Sunward errata and threads like this were all that came up.

Prime Mover wrote:

Any official collection of errata outside of updated pdf? Was there a change to the Mobile Scientist and Synthmorph Activist equipment?

We didn't release an errata file because, well, there were only 4 rules-text-related changes, and I kind of forgot. ;-) Here it is now: http://eclipsephase.com/downloads/sunward_errata_major_1.1.pdf And yes, the correct statblocks for the Mobile Scientist and Synthmorph Activisit are in the errata, and I included the full pages for them.

Just so I'm understanding this - this errata document 1.1 is what is already incorporated into the January 2011 'version' of Sunward? "May 2011" listed right above the general errata note made me think this errata document was in addition to the january update. Also, minor typo: on Pg. 163, the Sundiver Synthmorph has "LArge" under the Disadvantages category, not "Large Target combat modifier" as in the following Surya Biomorph listing. Thank you for the updates, in any case.