Been reading mine over lunch breaks this week and just finished it. I really like it, looks really pretty and well put together and a interesting adventure to boot! Can't wait to run it for my players.

I think some areas need a little bit extra but then you could say that for every adventure and the areas for attention are nearly always different for each GM.

I do have two small complaints though (not the price/size though)

1) Spelling, punctuation and grammar - There is a mistake (and I don't mean the differences between American and English ) in one of these three categories on nearly every page in the first half of the book. It did get better but I was still seeing them by the end. I know this is common with every RP book no matter who publishes it and it certainly doesn't bug me any where near as much as a friend of mine who teaches English, nor did it make me even consider regretting buying the book but there does seem to be alot of them in this book.

2) Some of the weapon strengths seem a bit odd again, particularly the NPCs with Unnatural strength. Some seem to have the unnatural bonus included others don't. Also, one poor combatant has a weapon (power blade no less) that deals 1D0+6 damage (strength bonus included)

As for beer, I for one would rather have the more expensive UK beer than the "like having sex in a canoe" beer you unfortunate Americans have to put up with!

And I would rather have this book than beer!

Lupinorc said:

Hey, we have good beer too... it's just more expensive then bud (though still cheeper then it is for you folks... even the imports are cheeper here apparently). Heck, a local brewery here in Louisiana makes one hell of an espresso-stout that'll kick your teeth in (mmm, **** tasty and it wakes you up to boot!). Not all American beer is piss-water -just predominantly the supper cheap lagers that seem so dominant the commercials during the Supper Bowl (American football thing of importance). However, there is a strong movement back to the more traditional warmer brewed ale and more complex tasting brews as of late... probably has to do with the spike in interest in the art of home brewing and prolification of microbreweries and most every state having their own home-grown brewery.

As in all things, in the end, you get what you pay for... unless you get ripped off ;-)

But on Tattered Fates, dose the adventure add any information to who/what the Tyrant Star is? Or who/what the King in Rags and Tatters is? Or any additional concrete information on the Haarlocks?

From the reviews I've read so far none of those questions have addressed except for the last (kind of) and it seems to be a "wait for the next book" kind of situation. So, is there any information contained within the adventure that would be of use to GM's who may not run the adventure but could use it for the information it gives?

Lupinorc said:

Too often anymore it seems to me that people no longer proof-read a work of literature, relying on the spell-check function of whichever word processing program is being used. Errors like those mentioned should be caught by editors. I understand it is not always possible to catch every little mistake, and that even then errors may occur in the transfer between mediums.

Lupinorc said:

I'm a Guiness man myself, though the Russian Imperial Stout I found; of all places at a Japanese restaurant, was interesting.

-=Brother Praetus=-

I would guess that most people don't know how to spell.

Lupinorc said:

Steve

angryboy2k said:

Would you believe I did that deliberately to make a point? No? Oh ok

How about, I don't charge people for copies of my forum posts , nor do I employ an editor.

Graver - My fiance's brother raves about an ale called (I think he said) Moosejaw (or was it Moosedrool, I certainly hope it is the first one!) and continualy tells me I must go over so I can try some. Have you heard of it? Or is it a South Dakota only brew?

1) I like the hardcover. Makes it easier t read

2) the adventure is very information dense

3) it is not suitable for novice GM's; chapter 1 includes a dozen "encounter nuggets" that don't include stats, and are all optional. A novice won't have the experience to pace this properly for their group.

4) It starts with the party already captured; my last DH group would have gone psycho at that point.

5) large parts are readily reusable.

6) Budwiser isn't beer... it's unfinished sake.

7) the price is the same as 3 packs of smokes plus 1 lighter.