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9/12 is just what I have derived myself. I imported pages from their new books into InDesign and when overlaying text on top, 9/12 was the setting that made it work :)

I've been reading an old scenario that mentions asking for a Linguist skill roll to determine if someone's accent is fake, and later, which region someone's accent is from. As Linguist is no longer a skill, what roll should I ask for? The best I can come up with is EDU but a straight roll seems a little too easy considering that the old Linguist skill had a base chance of 0%. Determining a region seems like it would be pretty difficult. Would an Extreme EDU roll be suitable or is that too much? For an average Investigator, that would be 13%. Does anyone have any thoughts?

If you're looking for what's actually used in Chaosium's books, it's 9pt Adobe Caslon Pro (with 12pt Leading).

Someone pointed out to me today that the Cthulhu Dark Ages pre-gens are well beyond the rules for character creation. Has anyone else noticed this? The core characteristics are all well above average, which is no big deal as that could be rolled, but the skill points are off the chart. I picked one at random (the Healer) and worked out that they've allocated 898 points, despite only having 360 available between occupation and personal interest. I've never used pre-gens myself, so I'm just curious if this is normal?

I was just comparing the old and new Unspeakable Possessors/Adherents of the Unspeakable Oath, and noticed two big differences that may have been overlooked (or may have been intentional). The first is that the creature drains hit-points when it feeds, which it then absorbs into its own STR and SIZ. I feel this should now be x5, because dividing an average of 5 points among the two stats is pretty trivial otherwise. This leads into a similar issue, which is the damage the creature takes once the sun rises. It was previously 1D20 from STR and SIZ, which meant it could potentially die in a day or two if it failed to feed, whereas it's now 2D10, which is a similar roll, though because the stats are x5, it means it could survive an average of 9 days (with a minimum of 5). Again, this makes its need to feed quite trivial (in my opinion), if it can survive over a week without even needing to. If these are intentional changes, then I apologise for wasting your time, but I thought I should still bring them to your attention in the chance that they weren't.

More of a question than an error per se, but are the Spawn of Abhoth (pg.32) meant to have 100% attack chance? It seems unusual for a creature that is meant to flop and flounder about. The only other monster in Volume 1 that has 100% is the Black Dogs (pg.172).

On pg.43, in the G'harne box, the first sentence ends with, "...and their god Shudde-M’ell,." A comma has snuck in there before the full stop.

In the same box, there is a line that reads, "...lead down into the city, which while entombed is still partially navigable." While I'm not 100% up on my punctuation rules, I believe there should be commas on each side of "while entombed", so that it reads, "...lead down into the city, which, while entombed, is still partially navigable."

Further down, a line reads, "...and are devoted the god that lives below them." This needs a "to" before "the god".

Not sure if it's an error or just a change, but a Gnoph-Keh (pg.73 in the new book) used to be able to perform one horn-gore and up to four claw attacks (see pg.44 of the old Malleus), but it now says five claws or one horn-gore.

On pg.145, the Greater Size Brood of Ubbo-Sathla STR average should be 195 instead of 190.

On pg.157, in the "Advanced Weapons from Yaddith" box, it says "Tune Pistol", whereas it should be "Tube Pistol". Just saw that one was already posted

Before continuing on with checking any stats, I thought I'd double-check for any rolls with parentheses that shouldn't...

• Pg.57, Lesser Desh CON and SIZ
• Pg.92, Lloigor POW (also CON and SIZ, though they appear intentional)
• Pg.111, Rat-Thing CON and POW (as I mentioned above)
• Pg.122, Shoggoth Lord (True Form) DEX (as mentioned above)
• Pg.188, Bobcat/Lynx STR
• Pg.189, Dog STR and POW
• Pg.189, Jackal STR and SIZ
• Pg.190, Cats STR and CON
• Pg.200, Snapping Turtle (both types) DEX and POW

And also added spaces:

• Pg.61, Dwellers in the Depths Fighting damage
• Pg.81, Spawn of Hastur DEX roll (mentioned above)
• Pg.155, Death-Vine Bite damage
• Pg.180, Scarecrow Sickle damage

And also on pg.185, the crocodile STR roll is missing a left parenthesis.

28 minutes ago, Meow said:

APP of Spawn of Nyogtha's human form is  (2D6+9)*5, which will possibly exceed the human limit of 99 (with a maximum of 105)

Is it meant that monsters with human form don't have to comply with human limits?

It does seem unusual that a monster would have such high APP, especially considering what it ends up looking like.

On pg.90, the CON roll of the L'gy'hx is missing a right parenthesis.

On pg.93, the average Lurker INT should be 70-75 instead of 65-70.

On pg.95, the INT average of the Mi-Go Scientist should be 120 instead of 110-115, and the POW roll is missing a left parenthesis.

On pg.111, the CON and POW rolls of the Rat-Thing are in parentheses despite having no modifiers.

On pg.122, the DEX roll for Shoggoth Lords True Form are also in parentheses despite having no modifier.

(Got to the end of the "S" chapter this time around. Hopefully I'll be able to finish them off before the cut-off.)

On pg.39, the SIZ of the Lesser Brothers should say 85-90 average rather than 85-95.

There's something amiss with the Greater Brother rolls on pg.40. The averages imply that the 5D6 and 2D6 rolls are being multiplied by 5, whereas this is not shown in the rolls themselves, or in the explanatory paragraph above.

On p.41, the Chthonian Lifecycle 3rd Instar average should be 145 rather than 150.

On pg.55, the average DEX of the Dolphin Hybrid should simply be 95.

On pg.57, the average CON for the Greater Desh should be 50 instead of 65.

On pg.59, the average SIZ of the Dhole should be 3025, and its average POW should be 175.

On pg.81, there is a space in the middle of the the Spawn of Hastur DEX roll.

(I only made it to the end of the "H" chapter before my brain was frazzled from all the numbers haha)

2 hours ago, Charaina said:

Ah, so for choosing attacks in monster creation, creatures have the option to utilize weaponry?

Many do, such as Deep Ones, so it makes sense to have that in the creation options.

On pg.195 of the Deities volume, in the Lady of the Woods entry, the power Command says, “when directly spoken to, humans to fall under the command of the Lady.” The second “to” (bold) seems to need deleting.

In the Crawling Ones entry on p.46, it says, "if the crawling cannot find a means to escape such situations", which seems it should say, ""if the crawling one cannot find a means to escape such situations".

In the Desh entry on p.56, it says, "Thus, one seen at 60 yards/meters may, in the follow second, be biting down on that person’s throat!" I believe this should say, "...in the following second...".

In the Servitor of the Outer Gods entry, p.109, the stat block title calls them "the pipping ones", which presumably should be "piping". It says "pipping" in the Alternative names section on the previous page as well as in the middle of the main paragraph.

On p.36, the Blighted Ones' stats for STR and DEX say "roll host x2/average 120-140". As both of these stats are a 3D6 roll, the average would be 100-110. Likewise, the SIZ average is listed as 50-55, whereas it would be 65.

EDIT: I just saw that the Adherents of the Unspeakable Oath on p.33 are similarly off. DEX and CON are correct, though STR is not, and SIZ would be 97 rather than the listed 82.

On p.66 of V1, in the Flying Polyp entry, it says “Around 50 million years ago (during the Cretaceous era)”, though the Cretaceous was 66-145m years.

Denizens of S’glhuo are absent from the index.

Reposted from the announcement thread:

In the Shub-Niggurath entry on p.191 of the Deities volume, it says, “Mutation: rather than undergone complete transformation...”. I believe this should either be “undergo”, “undergoing”, or “having undergone”. Also, just below it, it says, “Mind Swop”, which is obviously intended to be “Mind Swap”.

I know there will likely be a corrections thread, but until there is, I just want to post two I found before I forget where they were...

In the Shub-Niggurath entry on p.191, it says, “Mutation: rather than undergone complete transformation...”. I believe this should either be “undergo”, “undergoing”, or “having undergone”. Also, just below it, it says, “Mind Swop”, which is obviously intended to be “Mind Swap”.

I’ve been awaiting this for so long. Thank you so much. It looks amazing!

Just saw in the Index on p.264, that the section for "E" entries says "D".

Another very minor typo I've just come across: On p.172, 2nd column, line 10, "someonewere" needs a space.

And another, on p.233, the first line of "Keeper's Background" says, "The Monastery of St. Swithun about a day’s journey from Totburh and home to 30 monks." It should be "is about".

Another on p.238, in "Back to the Monestary" it says, "He’d prefer to capture and ransom them trather than kill them."

And one more also on p.238, it says, "...but allow them to understoof that it does somehow weaken him," is presumably meant to say, "understand".

There is a text box that goes over its border on p.70 (see attached).

1 hour ago, midwinter said:

Well, that limits things concerning the Repository greatly. Unless one contacts each estate or author and asks for permission to use their Mythos creatures I guess.

I think it’s safest to either use only Lovecraft’s creatures, or to just make your own.