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Normally I don't get both, but this one's special, besides, in a couple of months when the real book comes out you can think of it as just buying another book, different month new book budget. *grin* |
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10-14-2010, 12:34 PM | #22 |
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Speaking of, should we report typos in the usual way, or will there be a special thread for it as with Treasure Tables?
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10-14-2010, 12:36 PM | #23 |
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I started a thread on the e23 forum, not sure what they'll be doing.
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10-14-2010, 12:39 PM | #24 |
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A request: Please don't use the errata thread to speak of things that clearly were never intended to be in the book. You're welcome to go to the GURPS forum and opine that you'd rather have tables than do math, but it's quite clear from the text that we decided that doing math was the more space-efficient and generic approach for armor. There are many armor types and hit locations, so precalculated lists of all possible combos for men and beasts would fill another chapter for which we couldn't justify the added expense.
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10-14-2010, 12:52 PM | #25 |
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I'm curious why you're singling out just helmets and neck protection, BTW, Are you equally upset that there are no tables for codpieces, pauldrons, etc., as per p. 100? Those could be added as well -- it would bring the table up to 990 entries. That's approximately a 600- to 650-page book all by itself. PS: An animal armor table, if added, would encompass 594 entries (or around a 400-page book). PPS: Please note that I'm not exaggerating to prove a point. This is exactly what the math works out to. This is because there isn't a "pauldron" -- there's a cane pauldron, a padded cloth pauldron, a horn pauldron, a light layered cloth pauldron, a medium layered cloth pauldron, a heavy layered cloth pauldron, a light leather pauldron, a medium leather pauldron, a heavy leather pauldron, and so on. That's 33 table entries for each pauldron, for each codpiece, for each gorget, for each bevor. Since there are 30 types of armor listed, including the torso armor on the table, that's 990 entries.
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10-14-2010, 12:57 PM | #27 | |
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Telling us that we don't need a table isn't really a good way to answer the question of whether or not a missing table accidentally got dropped out of the print run as errata, or is purposefully omitted for space. |
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10-14-2010, 12:58 PM | #28 |
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And there was both much rejoicing and the gnashing of teeth as to wait till print version or immediate gratification at the PDF version.
I'll second getting both though. I prefer paperback but the PDF files are darn more convenient to lug around. |
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