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Similar to the Cults of Prax Errata thread, some possible tweaks to be done:

Page 94

   "characters had reached relatively powerful positions as Rune Lords* or Rune Priests" -- capitals? Also what is the * for ? Should this be deleted?

Page 77   "some misgivings, I conferred with a Lhankor Mhy priest in"

Page 78   "things were unknown to us or to the Lhankor Mhy priest,  "

Page 94

   "a proper idea of the place of Chaos within the world, and to"  -- capital C for Chaos?

   "against the growing threat of Chaos armies from the vile land of" -- capital C for Chaos?

   "proper presentation and powers which were appropriate to its"  - remove apostrophe

 

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Changed "errata" to "typo's" in the title
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With all respect and politeness, please don't call these topics "Errata".

What you are finding is great. These are typos, formatting, and similar adjustments. These are NOT Errata.

Errata is a very specific term for RULES issues and fixes. It is incredibly potentially misleading to have all this under an errata thread. People can easily get the misbelief that the book is a train wreck of errors that make it unplayable. A missing comma, an extra space, or a long dash instead of a short dash are nice to correct, but they have NO impact on game play.

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Page 17.  "The year 375 was critical for Glorantha."

Page 19  "The war against Gbaji had lasted 50 years; now Arkat retired"  - as per the Guide

Page 19  "and kept the area around it under his watchful eye for his other 50 years. In"  - as per the Guide

Page 21  "Four kings of the Bilini are important to the narrative. The first is Eric *, whom Ketil killed in 1611 S.T.."   The text to which the * is link to is on page 24: not that helpful - maybe add some reference to where to find this supportive text.

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4 minutes ago, Rick Meints said:

With all respect and politeness, please don't call these topics "Errata".

What you are finding is great. These are typos, formatting, and similar adjustments. These are NOT Errata.

Errata is a very specific term for RULES issues and fixes. It is incredibly potentially misleading to have all this under an errata thread. People can easily get the misbelief that the book is a train wreck of errors that make it unplayable. A missing comma, an extra space, or a long dash instead of a short dash are nice to correct, but they have NO impact on game play.

No problems, my error sorry. Is there a away to fix my own typo with the Header of the Thread?

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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop submitting factual things you want updated to match the Guide or any other more current texts. We are NOT going to rewrite these books for whatever may have changed over time unless it is something super simple like a date shifting 5 years. We are not updating the history, cosmology or other related things. If Esrolians stopped wearing round hats in 1378 and switched to square hats we are not going to ferret out all the references, redraw the art, and cross check it with every other Classic book, magazine article, the Guide, HQ:G or anything else. One of the beauties of Glorantha is INCONSISTENCY between sources.

While you are welcome to start a thread to discuss how Glorantha has been refined, changed, and redefined over the decades, please do not have ANY expectation that this is "stuff that needs fixing" in these classic books. It is akin to asking that they all be updated to third edition RQ rules. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

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1 hour ago, Rick Meints said:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop submitting factual things you want updated to match the Guide or any other more current texts. ....

. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

This is a relief to hear. I was worried after the additional dates were put in the RQ2 rules (page 7) that this would happen.

Happy to keep the inconsistency / ambiguity going.

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We put those EXTRA dates in the rulebook for only three reasons:

1. We had the space and wanted to fill the column.
2. We wanted to tease people a bit.
3. We thought it was a fun addition.

NOTE: We tend to add a few bits of extras, but we don't tend to rewrite things. Fixing a typo is not the same as rewriting.

jongjom: the shiny Cults of Terror cover is from a brand new high quality scan done recently of the original painting. I also scanned in the original Lunar warrior (Crimson Bat section) piece of art again. The original is in our archives.

Thank you to all who are helping crowdsource edit these books.

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Always pleased to see typo's caught, but it's clear that -- for example -- the massive "Errata" thread for the 13G "Glorantha Sourcebook" (and an exemplary job done there; thanks to all!!!) is an entirely different kettle of fish than is the project of returning older titles to print.

Fixing typo's is a nice bonus in the new reprints, but revising them to "modern canon" would be unwelcome (to me; YGMV).

 

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Page 66.   INT 25 CON 16 SIZ 1 (space) POW 30 DEX 20

Page 82. "If successful, the target will take 4D3 damage - In a Disruption spell." Should be "If successful, the target will take 4D3 damage as in a Disruption spell."

Page 82.  Spit(space) - the spit of the Krarshtkid is the pratzim base which

Page 82.  The Text under 'Weapons' for Karshkids is left aligned - differing from what was done originally. Was this intended?

Page 88. "The example formula is 13 + 11 + 5, divided by 3, then multiplied by 3, equaling a 29% chance to gain approval."

Page 88. "The example formula thus stands at 13 + 11 + 25, divided by 3, then multiplied by 2, equaling a 33% chance of acceptance." (If the rule is to round up 32.6667 to a whole number)

Page 91. Under New Battle Magic the layout for 'Image Creation' has the wrong text under the relevant headers

Page 91. H. NEW RUNE SPELLS The 2-point and 3-pioint spells are not in blocks of 5 (or less) which differs from what was done originally. Was this intended?

 

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Page 25 Under Chaos Feature:

“Duration instantaneous and permanent, Range touch, not Reusable, Non-stackable”

Should be:

“Duration instantaneous and permanent, range touch, non-reusable, non-stackable”

-          Which is the same as the original

Or, if you want to be in keeping with the rest of the document:

“permanent, touch, non-reusable, non-stackable”

 

Page 28

“and has the following nominal rates: 300/[delete space]600/1200/2000 L.”

 

Page 31

“He also will steal 1[delete space]D3 points POW directly”

 

Page 32

Under the diseases Brittleskin/ Convulsions/ Bleeding Disease

“The above diseases can only be cured by successfully using:

spirits of Healing, Divine Intervention, or Mallia initiation.”

-          The original CoT also lists Cure Disease spell as an option

 

Page 35

“Darkwall, Healing 4-6, Mind-speech, and Protection 4.”

Should be:

“Darkwall, Healing 4-6, Mindspeech, and Protection 4.”

 

Page 36

“Venom Boosting 2 point”

Should this be “Venom Boosting 1 point”? In the original Venom Boosting was listed under the 1-point spells in the Bagog write up and in the list of new spells at the end of the book, but had text to say it was 2-point in the spell description

 

-- Also the 1-point spells are not in alphabetical order, which the original edition also did for this cult write up

 

Page 42

“magic, nor will they consent to be placed in Mind-link with the”

May be:

“magic, nor will they consent to be placed in Mind Link with the”

 

Page 57

“Parry with medium shield, Move Silently, Hide in Cover, Darktongue (Read, Write, and Speak), Garrote.”

 

Page 57

“Training: 200/400/900L./experience”

The original was: Training: 200/400/800L./experience

 

Page 57

“Damage: 1D6+1 (damage ignores all armor except hood, unless[delete full stop] neck armor is specified.)”

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The original had the following which might be added:

Editing and Additional Material by Lynn Willis, Greg Stafford, and Charlie Krank

 

PAUL JAQUAYS (pages 44, 65, 93)

Should be

PAUL JAQUAYS (pages 44, 52, 65)

-          You moved the picture where it should have gone all those years ago!

 

Possibly missing is a credit to ‘Luise’ for her picture on page 75

 

Page 82

The original Karshtkids HP descriptions had ‘Front Leg’, ‘R. Front Leg’ rather than ‘F Leg’; RF Leg etc. Is the old way better?

 

Page 91 New Skills

 

Bat Mastery    but the original was     Bat Mastery*

Disguise*        but the original was     Disguise**

 

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