Dark Ages 3rd Edition Errata

[Astrophel]

Hi everyone.

I bought Dark Ages 3rd edition as I wanted to master a session through Foundry VTT (and I eagerly wait for an official module for that) and as i was carefully reading the rules in the book i found some issue regarding the Use Shield Skill.

In the summary of the skill options:

When the shield user elects to dodge in response to an
attack, they can use their Fighting (Shield) skill instead of
their Dodge skill and so gain the value of the shield’s armor
even if they fail to succeed with their Fighting (Shield) roll.
Note that if a shield user elects to use their Dodge skill instead
of their Shield skill when trying to avoid being struck, they
gain no armor protection from the shield if they
lose the fight.

Where the shield user elects to fight back rather than dodge
an attack, if both combatants achieve the same level of success
(a draw) then the shield user also benefits from their shield’s
armor value.

In the Combat Outcomes for Shield Users i found but an error as in case of Attacker wins combat and Defender Fighting Back the outcome has been wrongly inserted as "Shield armor subtracted from attacker’s damage" where it should not be....

also from the previous example it is clear that in case of attacker winning and defender losing (if fighting back) the full damage has to be applied (only armor if any can be calculated):

If Eric had elected to fight back instead of dodging, Hathor’s
successful attack would have caused 6 hit points of damage as
Eric is placing himself in a riskier position, rather than fighting
defensively. In this case, Hathor was the better fighter, able to
strike past the shield.

The table is clearly wrong.... Any updates?

Thanks

 

[Scotty]

While not specifically addressing your concerns (Mike is currently at Chaosium Con), there is a correction doc here:

https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/5988-errata-updates/#comment-210447

If you haven't already, you may like to join the #chaosium channel over on the Foundry Discord https://discord.gg/foundryvtt