2320AD Errors, Layout Issues, Etc...
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Page 57 - It might be a little late in the day for this, but the sidebar lists exchange rates for a bunch of countries against the French Livre. If France is getting overextended, would its currency be slipping? Or just mention this in the GM Section "Trade and Commerce" campaign on page 363-4? Rivals scent blood of French businesses in water, France far too overstretched to bail them out as they have in the past, value of the Livre slipping a percent or two against rival currencies?
Page 339 - end of page, "Number Produced: 18(" has a trailling open parenthasis
Page 346 - Core Encounters, last sentance. "Unlike Frontier worlds, which roll a chance of an encounter, in the Core system [should be plural!] transiting ships will have a note-worthy encounter on a regual basis."
Page 347 - small table bottom of left column, 'Situation' and 'Modifier' in the header. Should the 'modifier' values be centered in their column? It would look better and be easier to read.
Page 348 - Ditto for the table in the middle of the left column with header 'Encounter Situation' and 'Modifiers'
Page 348 - the two "American Arm" system and mainworld encounter tables are the only tables I've seen with extra bars after all of the text.
Page 360 - until now. Two more tables with extra lines/bars after text, the 'nationality' tables for French and American Arms.
Page 370 - add "Little Fuzzy" by H. Beam Piper to the "Fiction Sources" listing? It does deal with a world only colonized twenty-five years ago, you just have to change the contragravity technology to make it compatible. They've just been reprinting some of his titles recently, too.
Page 86 - Interface Capability is missing its letter code
Page 104 - top of left column, under 'the French Colony' - "Major Cities" has an extra tab, giving a big blank area before the first entry
I've also noticed some inconsistancies in the spelling of "roton" in the "Interface Capability" sections. It's given a few ways:
Page 95 - Roton
Page 96 - Roton
Page 108 - roton
Page 113 - Roton
Page 119 - Roton
Page 128 - ROTON
Page 129 - roton
Page 149 - Roton
Page 157 - Roton
Page 168 - Roton
Page 140 - Interface Capability is missing its letter code
Page 143 - Interface Capability is missing its letter code
Page 339 - end of page, "Number Produced: 18(" has a trailling open parenthasis
Page 346 - Core Encounters, last sentance. "Unlike Frontier worlds, which roll a chance of an encounter, in the Core system [should be plural!] transiting ships will have a note-worthy encounter on a regual basis."
Page 347 - small table bottom of left column, 'Situation' and 'Modifier' in the header. Should the 'modifier' values be centered in their column? It would look better and be easier to read.
Page 348 - Ditto for the table in the middle of the left column with header 'Encounter Situation' and 'Modifiers'
Page 348 - the two "American Arm" system and mainworld encounter tables are the only tables I've seen with extra bars after all of the text.
Page 360 - until now. Two more tables with extra lines/bars after text, the 'nationality' tables for French and American Arms.
Page 370 - add "Little Fuzzy" by H. Beam Piper to the "Fiction Sources" listing? It does deal with a world only colonized twenty-five years ago, you just have to change the contragravity technology to make it compatible. They've just been reprinting some of his titles recently, too.
Page 86 - Interface Capability is missing its letter code
Page 104 - top of left column, under 'the French Colony' - "Major Cities" has an extra tab, giving a big blank area before the first entry
I've also noticed some inconsistancies in the spelling of "roton" in the "Interface Capability" sections. It's given a few ways:
Page 95 - Roton
Page 96 - Roton
Page 108 - roton
Page 113 - Roton
Page 119 - Roton
Page 128 - ROTON
Page 129 - roton
Page 149 - Roton
Page 157 - Roton
Page 168 - Roton
Page 140 - Interface Capability is missing its letter code
Page 143 - Interface Capability is missing its letter code
I've gotta say... Well done to all you guys for picking apart 2320AD like this. It means that when it comes to print it'll be top notch! All the errors that have been found just go to show how hard Colin's worked on this. When I'm writing about something I care about, I just go for it...and leave THOUSANDS of spelling and grammatical errors behind! 
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You know, this thing has been in development for years, really. Dozens of people have looked it over. And no one has noticed this, including myself. They are simply not there. The only explanation I can come up with is that the starship design section was originally slated to be included, and it had the stats for all the weapons. When we pulled that for space reasons, we forgot to put in the stat blocks for the weapons.
The current revision I'm working on has the stat blocks in the starships chapter, in the discussion about ship technology before the actual vessel listings.
My apologies that this rather crucial item was missed.
It was about 250,000 words or so, including the stuff we cut. So a few typos are not out of order. I'm wondering how we missed them, though, later, not to mention the editor. Then again, I've rewritten a lot of this since the editor had a go at it, so I can't really blame him.Originally posted by TWILIGHT:
I've gotta say... Well done to all you guys for picking apart 2320AD like this. It means that when it comes to print it'll be top notch! All the errors that have been found just go to show how hard Colin's worked on this. When I'm writing about something I care about, I just go for it...and leave THOUSANDS of spelling and grammatical errors behind!
This is by far the best forum I visit.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
There's good news, and there's bad news.
The good news is, what with the Huygens/Cassini probe, we're getting really fresh info on Titan so the book can be up to date.
The bad news is, as more info comes out, this means changes to the text.
Here's the latest on Titan:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/space/cassini-huygens.html
"It wasn't until the summer of 2006 that the Cassini orbiter took radar images of Titan's surface and saw beyond the moon's hazy orange and yellowish atmosphere for the first time.
"Lakes of liquid hydrocarbons were discovered in Titan's northern latitudes. They are the only known lakes outside of the Earth, and range in size from about 100 kilometres in diameter to one that's even bigger than any of the Great Lakes."
The good news is, what with the Huygens/Cassini probe, we're getting really fresh info on Titan so the book can be up to date.
The bad news is, as more info comes out, this means changes to the text.
Here's the latest on Titan:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/space/cassini-huygens.html
"It wasn't until the summer of 2006 that the Cassini orbiter took radar images of Titan's surface and saw beyond the moon's hazy orange and yellowish atmosphere for the first time.
"Lakes of liquid hydrocarbons were discovered in Titan's northern latitudes. They are the only known lakes outside of the Earth, and range in size from about 100 kilometres in diameter to one that's even bigger than any of the Great Lakes."
Never admit anything.
(Don't you get American TV in Canada?)
You are supposed wait for your lawyer to ask for clarification on the meaning of "error" [or "is"] and then give a pre-arranged vague answer.
I prefer to rent movies/TV shows, and watch them when I want to.
Besides, I believe in personal responsibility. I made a mistake, and I'll fix it.
Yep, that's a Piper fan.Originally posted by Colin:
Besides, I believe in personal responsibility. I made a mistake, and I'll fix it.
Page 3 - heading on Chapter 20 should read "GM Guide" not "Gm Guide".
I could be wrong, but isn't Gm the short form for 'genetically modified'? Is chapter 20 a special chapter for those that the Pentapods have been at already?
Page 1 - Under Chapter 3:
There is an extra tab in first heading of "Quick Character Generation System"
There is a heading of "Homeworld Skills And Feats" then the next line has "Homeworld Feats"
Extra tab in "Quick Character Generation"
Under Chapter 6 - heading reads "Earth/sol" where Sol should be capitalized
Under Chapter 7 - in the colony/system names, almost every single word after the slashes is struck down from capitals. This carries on to the top of page 2.
Page 2 -
the section heading of Chapter 9 has an extra space in "Orbital Facilities, Outposts And Enclaves"
[and I don't think words like 'and' or 'the' are usually capitalized]
Chapter 11 "Computers And Information Security", strike down the capital in 'and'
Chapter 12 Equipment - under 'Pentapod Equipment', Pgmps should be PGMPs
Chapter 13 Cybernetics - fourth heading has struck-down capital and extra tab, should read
"Cybernetic/Prosthetic Modifications"
Page 3 under chapter 20, "2320AD Alternatives" - third listing has "D20m/d20f". Should both ds be the same?
There is an extra tab in first heading of "Quick Character Generation System"
There is a heading of "Homeworld Skills And Feats" then the next line has "Homeworld Feats"
Extra tab in "Quick Character Generation"
Under Chapter 6 - heading reads "Earth/sol" where Sol should be capitalized
Under Chapter 7 - in the colony/system names, almost every single word after the slashes is struck down from capitals. This carries on to the top of page 2.
Page 2 -
the section heading of Chapter 9 has an extra space in "Orbital Facilities, Outposts And Enclaves"
[and I don't think words like 'and' or 'the' are usually capitalized]
Chapter 11 "Computers And Information Security", strike down the capital in 'and'
Chapter 12 Equipment - under 'Pentapod Equipment', Pgmps should be PGMPs
Chapter 13 Cybernetics - fourth heading has struck-down capital and extra tab, should read
"Cybernetic/Prosthetic Modifications"
Page 3 under chapter 20, "2320AD Alternatives" - third listing has "D20m/d20f". Should both ds be the same?
Page 233 - Rorttmann LK - 1a4. 3rd sentance reads, "It uses the now-popular combination of a 30mm grenade launcher for area fire and a precision weapon for." Sentance needs finishing.
Page 234 - Quinn Optronics M-22. Under "Type", line reads "Shotgun: Use stats for Traylor Arms M-10 (p.00)." 00 should be p.230
Page 234 - Not specific to any weapon, but in the playtest you mentioned that the lasers were modular - a player could swap the grenade launcher out for a shotgun barrel, for example. Is this still the case?
Megajoule - according to Wikipedia, the symbol for a million joules is MJ. [Me, I want a YJ 'Yottajoule' laser. Who knew?]
The lowercase 'mj' is used in the Mueller-Rivera P-3 and LK-1a4 on page 233, the Quinn Optronics M-22 and Mueller-Rivera F-19b on page 234, and the nonlethal weapons on page 236.
Page 234 - Quinn Optronics M-22. Under "Type", line reads "Shotgun: Use stats for Traylor Arms M-10 (p.00)." 00 should be p.230
Page 234 - Not specific to any weapon, but in the playtest you mentioned that the lasers were modular - a player could swap the grenade launcher out for a shotgun barrel, for example. Is this still the case?
Megajoule - according to Wikipedia, the symbol for a million joules is MJ. [Me, I want a YJ 'Yottajoule' laser. Who knew?]
The lowercase 'mj' is used in the Mueller-Rivera P-3 and LK-1a4 on page 233, the Quinn Optronics M-22 and Mueller-Rivera F-19b on page 234, and the nonlethal weapons on page 236.
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Ummm, wtf? How did not only myself, but a legion of playtesters, and a professional editor, miss that? I don't blame anyone but myself, but that's kind of a big pink elephant floating by my window. I've made the change, and it will be reflected in the upcoming version, or maybe even this version in an update.
Sorry for that.
Page 161 left column:
Also: the illo of the races at the start of the aliens chapter doesn't label which is which, and no specific illos are included in the racial descriptions.
Also, on the playtesters, "Aramis" should be "William ("Aramis") Hostman"...
What's the "BODO" at the start of the paragraph?
Also: the illo of the races at the start of the aliens chapter doesn't label which is which, and no specific illos are included in the racial descriptions.
Also, on the playtesters, "Aramis" should be "William ("Aramis") Hostman"...
