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Post by magnus on Jun 15, 2009 8:32:59 GMT
Book 9, Section 145 says:
... 'A single room with a bed would be twelve Lune each.'
If you have enough money to pay for a room (twelve Lune equals four Gold Crowns), do so, and turn to 34.
If you do not have sufficient Lune or Gold Crowns to pay for a room, turn to 132.
I noticed this and thought it may be an error, as the Equipment Section at the beginning of the book states:
The currency of Anari is the Lune, but Gold Crowns are readily accepted at an exchange rate of four Lune for every 1 Gold Crown.
12 Lunes should equal 3 Gold Crowns
Has the exchange rate changed for this section?
I am SO glad these books are available online, I live in Australia and so, despite checking every second-hand bookshop, swapmeet and garage sale for Lone Wolf books for the last 15 years, there are gaps in my collection that I would never get to play if it weren't for the efforts of Project Aon and the generosity of Mr. Dever.
See you in Bor for an ale.
-Magnus
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Post by outspaced on Jun 15, 2009 15:58:44 GMT
Hi Magnus Thanks for the report. It is definitely an error, one that appeared in the original text of Book 9, and we've fixed it in the source file. It will be fixed in the online edition when we re-release Book 9, hopefully sometime next year. If you spot any other problems, please report them to us--we're always happy to fix problems in the books.  |
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Post by wisekai on Jun 26, 2009 13:30:37 GMT
Here are the ones I spotted. www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/12tmod/sect200.htm Last paragraph above the options reads: "A wall of stones, surmounted by an unbroken coil of razor-sharp wire, encircles the naval base. There is only one way through this perimeter wall--a gate that is guarded by a squad of Death Knights, the 7eacute;lite of the Drakkarim. Boldly you ride towards the gate, hoping to pass through unchallenged, but, as you approach, the Death Knights take up their spears and stand shoulder-to-shoulder across the road. 'Teg okak aga kog Argazad, shad?' demands their sergeant, gruffly." The end of the second sentence should be: " ... Death Knights, the elite of the Drakkarim.... " ---------------------------------------------------------- This may be correctly spelled English, but it is definitely not grammatically correct! www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/05sots/sect178.htm The first option says: If you in the combat, you may search his body, ... If you in? There should be a W there. You should fire your proofreader, forthwith! ----------- For section 58 www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/05sots/sect58.htm You should have a textbox where you can enter the answer. It may not be evident to non web developers to change 58 to whatever number. So this may cause confusion. www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/05sots/sect331.htm Same thing on this page. ------------------------------------------------------- You have a couple missing words here again this is perfect spelling but no grammatical sense. www.projectaon.org/en/ReadersHandbook/MagnakaiDisciplines About 8 paragraphs down. The Magnakai skills are divided into groups, each of which is governed by a separate school of training. These groups are called 'Lore-circles '. By mastering all of the Magnakai Disciplines in a particular Lore-circle , you can gain an increase in your and ENDURANCE points score. (See the section 'Lore-circles of the Magnakai ' for details of these bonuses.) I believe you are missing Combat Skill there before "and ENDURANCE points score...." -------------------------------------------------------- www.projectaon.org/en/ReadersHandbook/Magnakai Your first mispelling! about the 5th paragraph. "The first number that you pick from the Random Number Table in this way represents your CCOMBAT SKILL . Add 10 to the number you picked and write the total in the COMBAT SKILL section of your Action Chart (i.e. if your pencil fell on the number 4 in the Random Number Table you would write in a COMBAT SKILL of 14). When you fight, your COMBAT SKILL will be pitted against that of your enemy. A high score in this section is therefore very desirable. " Notice you have a double C in your first reference to Combat Skill. |
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Post by wisekai on Jun 26, 2009 13:37:52 GMT
magnus, the reason for the apparent confusion is simple. There's volitility in the foreign exchange market and since time has passed since you read the first part of the book, you cannot expect the exchange rate to be the same.
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Post by Taryn on Jun 26, 2009 15:13:58 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks it's odd how almost all instances of foreign currency in LW (finding it from enemies, prices, etc.) convert to an integer of gold crowns? Like, JD won't have you pay 17 lune, or find 65 kika...
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Post by outspaced on Jun 26, 2009 16:08:13 GMT
Strictly speaking, it should be " ... Death Knights, the élite of the Drakkarim.... " I absolutely hate this error! It's been there since 2003, and although it's been fixed in the source files for about four years, we still haven't re-released Book 12 with the silly error gone! Maybe next year...I hope...  :-p This has been fixed in the source file. It will be fixed in the online version when we re-release Book 5 (hopefully next year). I'm not a coder, as such, so I can't speak for definite, but I would imagine it is highly unlikely this will ever happen. The HTML is not hand-coded; rather, each book's text is held as an xml file (alongside a specially designed gamebook.dtd), and the HTML pages are created by means of a PERL transform script. Injecting javascript into certain pages at the transformation stage sounds like a huge amount of work with very little return, since it is so easy to click TABLE OF CONTENTS and then Numbered Sections. I'm not saying this definitely won't happen, mind you; just that it is very unlikely, and AFAIK it isn't on the radar right now--we're concentrating on getting the remaining NO books released, which means it could be some time before a NO-compliant Statskeeper is released. ------------------------------------------------------- It was there, but the code that was supposed to make it a link to the relevant entry in the Topical Guide was messed up. Now Fixed! And certainly not our last. Fixed! If you happen to spot any other issues with the Readers' Handbook, we're definitely interested in hearing about them ASAP... |
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Post by wisekai on Jun 26, 2009 16:57:19 GMT
For section 58 www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/05sots/sect58.htmYou should have a textbox where you can enter the answer. It may not be evident to non web developers to change 58 to whatever number. So this may cause confusion. www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/05sots/sect331.htmSame thing on this page. I'm not a coder, as such, so I can't speak for definite, but I would imagine it is highly unlikely this will ever happen. The HTML is not hand-coded; rather, each book's text is held as an xml file (alongside a specially designed gamebook.dtd), and the HTML pages are created by means of a PERL transform script. Injecting javascript into certain pages at the transformation stage sounds like a huge amount of work with very little return, since it is so easy to click TABLE OF CONTENTS and then Numbered Sections. I'm not saying this definitely won't happen, mind you; just that it is very unlikely, and AFAIK it isn't on the radar right now--we're concentrating on getting the remaining NO books released, which means it could be some time before a NO-compliant Statskeeper is released. ------------------------------------ You approached this another way which is also ok. In some sections You have a footnote saying to goto the numbered sections in the table of contents and goto the number corresponding to the answer. or something like that. But you may want to put this everywhere there is a riddle/puzzle like that. |
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Post by wisekai on Jun 26, 2009 17:00:31 GMT
This may be an oversight on either project aon's part or Joe Dever's (Author's are never wrong, so therefore it's project aon's fault! ) part. www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/13tplor/sect127.htmin The Plague Lords of Ruel section 127 there is no option for none of the above, ie you don't have any of those abilities (Nexus, Psi-Surge, or Invisibility). I was checking my book about that, but found out it's not in the abridged American copy. So unfortunately, I can't help you here. |
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Post by thrasyllu on Jun 27, 2009 2:05:37 GMT
All of those abilities are Magnakai abilities, so Lone Wolf (who's a Grandmaster) automatically has them. It's true that you're only allowed to take numerical bonuses from Weaponmastery/Psi-Surge/Curing/Huntmastery if you played and survived the Magnakai series, but Joe Dever includes Lone Wolf using various Magnakai abilities in the main text of Grandmaster adventures a number of times.
So, in this case, it's neither a Project Aon error nor an author's error!
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Post by beowuuf on Jun 27, 2009 7:48:58 GMT
Indeed, as said Lone Wolf has all the Magnakai and Kai abilities, and is usually explicitly mentioned as using them in the text in various places. This is just a cool example of the reader being given a choice of which one to use.
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Post by outspaced on Jun 27, 2009 11:51:11 GMT
You approached this another way which is also ok. In some sections You have a footnote saying to goto the numbered sections in the table of contents and goto the number corresponding to the answer. or something like that. But you may want to put this everywhere there is a riddle/puzzle like that. Bad news: we have been removing links to the Numbered Sections page from our footnotes! Basically, in the single-page editions, as well as the postulated PDF editions, this link is both nonsensical and potentially confusing. This may be an oversight on either project aon's part or Joe Dever's (Author's are never wrong, so therefore it's project aon's fault! ) part. www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/13tplor/sect127.htmin The Plague Lords of Ruel section 127 there is no option for none of the above, ie you don't have any of those abilities (Nexus, Psi-Surge, or Invisibility). I was checking my book about that, but found out it's not in the abridged American copy. So unfortunately, I can't help you here. Actually, it's neither. Read the options more carefully-- all readers will have all of those Disciplines. On a completely unrelated topic, this is my two thousandth post on the Project Aon forums. I really need to get out more.  |
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Post by beowuuf on Jun 27, 2009 12:46:04 GMT
woohoo!
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Post by wisekai on Jul 4, 2009 11:41:11 GMT
All of those abilities are Magnakai abilities, so Lone Wolf (who's a Grandmaster) automatically has them. It's true that you're only allowed to take numerical bonuses from Weaponmastery/Psi-Surge/Curing/Huntmastery if you played and survived the Magnakai series, but Joe Dever includes Lone Wolf using various Magnakai abilities in the main text of Grandmaster adventures a number of times. So, in this case, it's neither a Project Aon error nor an author's error! Oh! Ok, so it should have been turn to section 666. You ignorant fool! You should have had the wisdom enough to remember these things! Your life and your quest end here. |
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Post by wisekai on Aug 31, 2009 6:39:33 GMT
Another error,
The Plague Lords of Ruel, Book 13 section 292
2nd Sentence, between 2nd and 3rd comma.
...making you hesitate before puffing them on...
puffing? I believe Joe did not mean to light up the robe and smoke it, in which case this would be absolutely correct. I believe he meant putting an not puffing.
The pacer Abridged version has the same copy on section 201, or similar, because it says 'putting' not 'puffing'.
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Post by outspaced on Aug 31, 2009 8:05:28 GMT
Thanks for the spot! This has been fixed in the source file. The next time we re-release Book 13 it will be fixed online. Cheers!
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