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Jan 28, 2005 17:41:45 GMT
Post by Doomy on Jan 28, 2005 17:41:45 GMT
Here's the situation: I'm currently working my way through all the books on the site. Book 11 spoilers follow... Made it to Prisoners of Time and the dreaded Chaosmaster and beat him with surprising ease, using the Sommerswerd. Then the Villains of Sommerlund went down in six rounds. Next up- Vonotar! "No worries" I think to myself. "I'm actually in pretty good shape and have a decent Combat Ratio" What happens? I die in two rounds! "WTF?" I think. Then I realise I've made a mistake while keying his data into Statskeeper. An opponent with a Combat Skill of 330 is pretty tough!
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Jan 28, 2005 17:49:10 GMT
Post by Black Cat on Jan 28, 2005 17:49:10 GMT
Yeah, how come a little hunchback that you beated twice in precedent books is now more powerful than the big bad semi-God Chaosmaster?
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Jan 28, 2005 18:33:08 GMT
Post by Parsion on Jan 28, 2005 18:33:08 GMT
An opponent with a Combat Skill of 330 is pretty tough! You have no one to blame for this but yourself. If you hadn't brought the Sommerswerd along, he would have been only at CS 320. Far more manageable! * Ducks and cries "Don't hit me! It's my first post!" * Folkert
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Jan 28, 2005 19:06:46 GMT
Post by Zipp on Jan 28, 2005 19:06:46 GMT
You have no one to blame for this but yourself. If you hadn't brought the Sommerswerd along, he would have been only at CS 320. Far more manageable! * Ducks and cries "Don't hit me! It's my first post! * Folkert Actually, I thought it was funny. A good stab at an unfair battle.
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Feb 3, 2005 21:44:42 GMT
Post by Sol on Feb 3, 2005 21:44:42 GMT
* Ducks and cries "Don't hit me! It's my first post!" * Folkert And already causing mischief!
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Feb 4, 2005 3:43:33 GMT
Post by Sol on Feb 4, 2005 3:43:33 GMT
So is this an "Oops?"
I've been reading The Legacy of Vashna, and isn't this weird? All the distances seem to be given in metric. I mean, in all prior books, these have been given in standard (including The Dark Crusade. Funnier yet - even the map in this book has a key in miles, yet the text speaks of "kilometres" and "metres."
It just seemed really weird!
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Feb 4, 2005 4:42:20 GMT
Post by Nathan P. Mahney on Feb 4, 2005 4:42:20 GMT
Are you using the US edition of Book 16? It's possible that this is stuff that's been edited for a US audience.
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Feb 4, 2005 16:30:49 GMT
Post by Sol on Feb 4, 2005 16:30:49 GMT
I am using the US version. Interestingly, upon further reading, there was a section in this book that referred to miles again, so so strange.
You could be right - it might have been an attempt at translation. This was not done in any of the prior US editions, and in the US we use the standard system mostly (miles, yards, etc) so it seems odd that the translation to kilometres would have been attempted.
If anyone has a copy of the UK (Redfox) edition of Legacy of Vashna, I wouldn't mind hearing if this discrepency exists in the original.
If you play through, it is easy to see since it happens a LOT.
If you would like an example of where to check:
SPOILER:
On the roof after Smudd is killed, you are chasing the Ninjas and it says that the jump is "ten metres"
Probably just a little quirk!
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Feb 10, 2005 15:48:46 GMT
Post by North Star on Feb 10, 2005 15:48:46 GMT
Just shows, your publishers were more interested in (badly) hacking up the books than "correcting" Metric references! NS.
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Feb 10, 2005 16:15:36 GMT
Post by Sol on Feb 10, 2005 16:15:36 GMT
NS,
I cry when I think about all the ways that US Publishers have hacked the Lone Wolf series.
The entire GM series * cutting out many sections of the adventure * showing only an abridged version of Improved Disciplines in every book (this makes it so annoying when choosing your next discipline... you have to flip through lots of prior books just to see what a discipline can do for you)
Legends series * Why did they hack Book 4 into 2 books, then just not bother to publish more? If they really wanted 2 books, why couldn't they have given us the next book instead of making us pay twice as much for what in Britain is just one novel?
I could go on, but I am preaching to the converted.
Sol
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Feb 10, 2005 23:07:26 GMT
Post by outspaced on Feb 10, 2005 23:07:26 GMT
The entire GM series * showing only an abridged version of Improved Disciplines in every book (this makes it so annoying when choosing your next discipline... you have to flip through lots of prior books just to see what a discipline can do for you) As fun as it is to blame the Americans for everything ( ) this is actually an issue that originates with the original UK editions of the GM books. I suppose by cutting out previous Improved Disciplines they thought they would save a few pages. Fortunately, they didn't go as far as the US publishers. Book 3, I think you mean? The Sword of the Sun (UK) became The Tides of Treachery and The Sword of the Sun in the US. Which is rather pointless. In one of the Newsletters, Dever claimed that the US edition of whichever was Book 4 had some new text at the beginning of it--can anyone confirm is this is true? I am supposing it's just a resume on what has gone before (totally unnecessary in the original since it was all in one book), but my curiosity has been piqued nonethless.
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Feb 16, 2005 13:15:42 GMT
Post by North Star on Feb 16, 2005 13:15:42 GMT
Blame the Americans? What for? They are the avenging paragons of human society, with a wise and insightful leader justly voted back in for a second term. After all, they invented democracy and have to show the backwards world the glories of America.
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Feb 16, 2005 14:32:28 GMT
Post by Doomy on Feb 16, 2005 14:32:28 GMT
After all, they invented democracy and have to show the backwards world the glories of America. Like Diet Coke and Adam Sandler movies?
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Feb 16, 2005 14:34:09 GMT
Post by North Star on Feb 16, 2005 14:34:09 GMT
Well I was thinking more Star Wars and Star Trek, but yeah, Adam Sandler'll do. {IMPORTANT: that last to be taken with the same sincerity as my previous post!!}
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Feb 25, 2005 22:20:11 GMT
Post by Relenoir on Feb 25, 2005 22:20:11 GMT
Just shows, your publishers were more interested in (badly) hacking up the books than "correcting" Metric references! NS. Actually, this exists in the U.K. releases as well. I recently edited through TLoV, and found these inconsistencies throughout. Remember finding it odd as well. Blame Joe, not us Americans this time! Actually, I can clear this up! Just went to my bookshelf and found out this is one of the books I have both versions of! Still need a U.K. release of Hunting Wolf to finish my U.K. editions. Anyways, the 'additional frontmatter' in the U.S. version is the same thing as is at the beginning of the full-sized version, except with two additional paragraphs that add up to a combined total of four whopping sentences. That's about it.
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