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Ulzgoroth 12-18-2009 06:22 PM
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The expected value of a single treasure is huge, I'll tell you that. For the reason, see the Dimensional Refuge, Arena on page 38. Worth 200 million, 1/72 chance of getting it if you roll an unusual item, and 1/27 chance of rolling an unusual item. So that alone pegs the expected value above $100,000.

Of course, if you actually get that jackpot, I don't know what you'd do with it. Nobody can afford to buy it, and what do adventurers need 20,000 square yards of pocket dimension for?

sir_pudding 12-18-2009 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Greg 1 (Post 900900)
I'm loving this book and I am confident that any typos will be fixed, so I'm glad it came out when it did. What better Christmas present for GURPS fans than a book of treasures?
Except that it is sadly still impossible to actually buy it as a Christmas present (without hacking someone else's account anyway).

t@nya 12-18-2009 08:37 PM
Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 8: Treasure Tables
 
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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth (Post 901033)
The expected value of a single treasure is huge, I'll tell you that. For the reason, see the Dimensional Refuge, Arena on page 38. Worth 200 million, 1/72 chance of getting it if you roll an unusual item, and 1/27 chance of rolling an unusual item. So that alone pegs the expected value above $10,000.

Of course, if you actually get that jackpot, I don't know what you'd do with it. Nobody can afford to buy it, and what do adventurers need 20,000 square yards of pocket dimension for?
Open an extradimensional bar?

panton41 12-18-2009 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by t@nya (Post 901097)
Open an extradimensional bar?
I've been to a few of those...

Or was it a normal bar that gained dimensions after a night of drinking gallons of BBC (Bluegrass Brewing Company) beer...

The world may never know...

rosignol 12-19-2009 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth (Post 901033)
Of course, if you actually get that jackpot, I don't know what you'd do with it. Nobody can afford to buy it, and what do adventurers need 20,000 square yards of pocket dimension for?
I hear it's a great place to keep henchmen.

:>

Hai-Etlik 12-19-2009 02:35 AM
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I made up simple a spreadsheet to make it easier to add things up.

http://members.shaw.ca/hai-etlik/tmp...Calculator.ods

Peter Knutsen 12-19-2009 03:16 AM
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Originally Posted by martinl (Post 900961)
That said, a gem worth more than the rest of the setting combined is a very interesting plot point.
You mean like a sufficiently pimped mail shirt?

ericbsmith 12-19-2009 03:28 AM
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Originally Posted by rosignol (Post 901192)
I hear it's a great place to keep henchmen.

:>
Just don't forget to feed them...

Kuroshima 12-19-2009 04:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Kromm (Post 900895)
It's a few sentences. We can fix that simply by tweaking art size or whitespace on the same page. It won't affect any other pages. Really, "all the errors" in this item are no big thing. A single bad page break, a few omissions in many thousands of lines of tables, and a handful of dodgy internal page references . . . all caused by the hell that is paginating a book of tables. These errors will doubtless get fixed and become irrelevant early in the new year.

By comparison, I spent two days reviewing all the rules, costs, weights, and external cross-references. That stuff is solid. It's just unfortunate that the reformatting and repagination that led to the errors that are there happened after my lengthy review.
Damn, I took advantage of the boss being away this Thursday, and printed it out on the laser printer... Now I ask, will I have to do a full reprint? or will I have to reprint only the pages with errata?

Steven Marsh 12-19-2009 05:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Kuroshima (Post 901225)
Damn, I took advantage of the boss being away this Thursday, and printed it out on the laser printer... Now I ask, will I have to do a full reprint? or will I have to reprint only the pages with errata?
You'll only need to reprint pages with fixes. We generally design our layouts so that (say) making tweaks on page 16 doesn't affect layout on page 17. There are occasional layout issues -- for example, if an entire huge table were missing -- where we'd have to do more extensive rejiggering... but none of the quirks found so far has remotely reached that level of reworking.


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