GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

Grab it here while it's hot!

I'll comment more once I give it a through check!

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

I'm happy.

Looks like the stats for ships went through a thorough revision and they now look usable.

Everything I liked was retained and the text is readable and layout good.

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

Spotted erratum, page 16:
'Read ST from the heaviest applicable weight bracket on this table:"

Despite being emphasized in the text, heaviest should clearly be lightest, since the brackets are all 'less than X'.

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

Argh, and it survived several drafts. That's an error! I've submitted it already and requested an updated PDF. Sorry about that.

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

My Gygaxian Giants are smiling to GURPS now :-)

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I worked as a technical writer and editor for fifteen years. You can't get them all, ever, which is why there's whiskey and chocolate.

Now to get a copy, along with that new $1 Car Wars game.

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

Indeed, you can't get them all, no matter how hard you try. I've been a cartographer making nautical charts for over 20 years now, and some of the mistakes that I have seen hit the streets are classic -- "Untied States of America" and "Statute of Liberty" spring to mind.

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

I bought the Low-Tech Companion 1 and 2 the other day, planning to print them out and put them in binders on my shelf of hardbound Gurps books. The first one went off without a hitch, but the second, not so much.

Page 14 has a big black rectangle where an image should be, a large mess of scripting text in the middle of the page, and the PDF won't print beyond that point.

I've tried saving it to a new .pdf, saving it as post script, and downloading an updated version of the pdf, and they all have an identical error. I even updated my printer drivers.

I'm glad to have the companion, and I enjoy it a lot, but if I can't print it out to slap it in a binder then it loses most of its utility for me. Is there a fix I haven't thought of? Am I the only one having this problem? Figured this was the place to ask.

- /'skav.ɾa/

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

What program are you using to view/print the PDF?

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

As a quick temporary fix you could always take a screenshot of the page and print that out...

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

I should have thought to mention what program I'm using. Preview, on my MacBook.

I'd see about getting it open on my PC to try another program, but my PC doesn't have access to a printer.

- /'skav.ɾa/

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

Preview often has trouble with complex PDFs. I'd download Adobe Reader and try it in that.

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Shouldn't the Butt Spikes be +0.5lbs in addition to extra cost so that their wiegts line up with small spear points and the endcaps on staffs. Also, should the blunt butt spike be only +$5 to match staffs, although I can understand if they're not.

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

As a rules question, this would get more attention if you asked it on the GURPS board, starting a new thread.

Bill Stoddard

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

Preview lets you drag pages between documents. You might try opening a new doc in Preview and dragging all the pages after the bad one to it and print that doc.

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

Really and truly, the answer is "Don't use Preview on complicated PDFs." It does not render them well. I've run into this problem on other PDFs that opened perfectly in Adobe Reader.

Re: GURPS Low Tech Companion 2 is out!
 

Curious. I just printed out that specific page in Preview and it not only opened beautifully but printing out quite readably on the low-res setting. I don't think I've ever had a problem with printing PDFs.

Bill Stoddard

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This is a really good PDF.

I might post a review, but as I am still waiting on my copy of Low-tech and I would want to compare them I will wait for that.