Today, I continue digging through 17 pages of errata. I'm already down to 10 pages. Fortunately, most of the fixes are easy; folks spotting typos the editor missed or which somehow cropped up between edit and layout (likely because of some "last minute tweak"), but others are not so much. The possibility of repagination exists, which will make the task a little longer once the errata is done, but for now, the highlights:
* By far, the most extensive changes are happening in the character creation ection, specifically the life modules. Most of it is simple math issues, but there, a math issue can snowball quickly, so changes are tending to cascade through the section.
* After lengthy consideration, the base TNs are being changed. A Time of War uses a whopping 6 Action Check TNs; of these, 4 are being tweaked, with two going up and two going down. The Simple Skills are being raised to make starting character results more in line with TW effects (so it will be possible to make Green MechWarriors with bad Skills), while Attribute Checks are being lowered (so an average character at least has a shot at playing through a game of basketball)...
* Because of the above, I am expecting the real work to be examples and sample characters. Thus, it's the last thing I'm going to tackle in this process.
Apart from that, still on my plate are Historicals: Operation Klondike and Handbook: House Liao. Both are in the final writing and fact-checking stages, just waiting on that to end before they hit an editor. Then I start tearing apart the next batch of projects, including Era Report: 3052 and Jihad: Terra.
Yup. That's the news, and I'm outta here.
- Herb
"Джихад: Терра"? Niiice.
