Kraven Kor Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way too many Typos a Fuzion-based LARP!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestidigitator Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos Where are the typos at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos While I see typos and sentences that I'd have constructed differently, I don't think HERO has any more, or less, than most other products. Want to see something crammed with editing errors? Read XCRAWL. While a great idea for a D&D setting, the first sourcebook is riddled with mistakes. Also, as much as I love the Black Company, the Green Ronin isn't so much filled with mistakes, but suffers from really, really, needing a strong editor for its sections dealing with book summaries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos Humor aside -- I confess I have no idea what the original poster is talking about. I strongly and categorically disagree with the accusation that Hero Games books have lots of typos and other errors. Do we have some? Sure, we're not perfect. I doubt you could find a gaming book ever published by anyone that didn't have a few here and there. But we do the best we can to have as few of 'em as possible, and I think we succeed. Among other things, having volunteers enter character sheets and other information into Hero Designer to create our Character Packs allows us to catch math errors before they make it into print. We'll certainly cop to having an error here and there. But I think that accusing us of having a lot of errors, particularly in light of the amount we publish, is absurd. So long as the Erratta, doesn't exceed the "This is just RETARDED!" threshold, I'm fine with the occasional "ore" where "or" should be. I can think of many other company examples, right off the top of my head, where not only is the typo bit uncontroled, the sheer erratta pile, is as big as some of the books. HERO, thank the gods, has been relatively on the forfront. I guess the problem lies in the simple fact that because over all it's quality is so high, that when something does slip though, it really noticeable. ~Rex.....mis-spellins and typos intentional.....spell check thingie somewhat handicapped on this machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestidigitator Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos I guess I haven't really chimed in with any sort of serious contribution here yet. I agree that the Hero System books have pretty good quality in terms of the correctness of language (and personally I fall somewhere in between interpreting "correctness" in the technical literary sense and in the linguistic sense that considers primarily understandability). They are clean and easy to read. The few little errors are pretty easy to figure out, especially given the great responsiveness of the game developers (and gaming community) here on the site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way too many Hippos I guess I haven't really chimed in with any sort of serious contribution here yet. I agree that the Hero System books have pretty good quality in terms of the correctness of language (and personally I fall somewhere in between interpreting "correctness" in the technical literary sense and in the linguistic sense that considers primarily understandability). They are clean and easy to read. The few little errors are pretty easy to figure out' date=' especially given the great responsiveness of the game developers (and gaming community) here on the site.[/quote'] My first gaming system that I bought was Traveller. While it's still a love of mine, later versions were almost unplayable without finding the errata (which was harder in a pre-Internet era). Hero, on the other hand, consistently has high production values, with only the occasional errer. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned-kogar Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way too many Hippos Hero books, especially 6E, are among the most accurately, tightly written gaming books I've seen. If I had the time, I'd test the OP's complaint about inconsistencies when the stats are run through HD... maybe at the weekend. To his credit, he loves the Hero System, so he must be a good'un when it comes down to it. He's just been lucky not to buy, say Mongoose's Strontium Dog (nice setting, some big typos...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos Yeah I was a bit annoyed with the typos in Strontium Dog......those reached an unacceptable level in my book, especially considering that pre printing of the book, the freaking typos were pointed out, and they still got into the real deal. *sigh* ~Rex....loves his 2000AD material......not just because he was shilling for Mongoose at the time, heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned-kogar Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos [Not to get too OT, but] There's lots to love about Mongoose. Most fun roleplaying of the last year was a Traveller rules Dredd Hotdog Run - so different in style to Hero, combat-wise (quick, dirty, lots of post-rationalisation)... but the additional detail of character creation (as compared to GW and D20 Dredds) is what appealed to my Hero-loyal players. And the setting drew in a new player, who should be taking his first foray into Hero some time before Christmas... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos Yeah, I still have much love for Mongoose. Otherwise I wouldn't have run as many demo's for them as I did. The Dredd material, and the fact they finally saw the light with the Traveller material and started releaseing more LBB's () was a great move. My only issue with Dredd was player wise I kept running into folks that wanted to break the Psi rules. Other then that, one of the best games on the market right now and if they are smart, they'll reverse engineer the Dredd additionals into the Traveller system stuff as well (Though I already did that anyway)..... Remains my fallback system for when I can't get people to play HERO.....Sometimes I miss the days when the d20 Spectre wasn't so prevelant. ~Rex If it weren't for Traveller and Champions back in the day with a few FGU things tossed in, never would have stuck with the RPG hobby over the decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos What is LBB stand for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brionl Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos What is LBB stand for? Little Black Book, like the original digest sized Traveller rulebooks. The problem I have with the new Mongoose Mercenary LBB is that it's a different size than the Traveller Pocket Rulebook. I don't really care that the PR was a different size than the original LBBs, but they could at least pick one size and stick to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos Ah... yes. Now it seems so obvious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re:MegaTraveller Books Have Way to many Typos What is LBB stand for? Little Black Book, a reference to the original release format of Classic Traveller books. They were typically a staple-bound book made by folding an 8 1/2 x 11 page in half. Mongoose has started to bring back LBB as a perfect-bound reprint of their larger books, but in a smaller size (which is not quite the same geometry as the old books--they're a little shorter and wider). GDW started to abandon the format with The Traveller Book, and released the next version of the rules, MegaTraveller in a larger format that matched the dimensions of books by most other publishers. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayapuppies Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos You want typo's? Pick just about any copy of an Iron Crown Enterprises published title. Particularly the RMSS or RMFRP editions of Rolemaster. Holy crud they are horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos And then there's ICE's HERO products... European Enemies, I'm looking right at you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos NO!!!! Mention Not the European Enema's! ~Rex.....thinks European Enemies has been fixed more times then the litter from 101 Dalmations..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos NO!!!! Mention Not the European Enema's! ~Rex.....thinks European Enemies has been fixed more times then the litter from 101 Dalmations..... For example, here's my repairs: http://surbrook.devermore.net/revisedhero/herorev.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos He rows is stem bucks half weigh tomb in neat eye pose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos Thai pose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevrick Posted August 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos Ok I didn't know I was going to open Pandora's box with this thread. To those who commented on the title I just noticed it after I had posted it and could not change it. Any way I suppose I was spoiled by Dnd books that had no errors, stat wise, that I found. I suppose in the long run it doesn't matter. It just seems like if they used Hero Designer to implement them first they would avoid a lot of errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestidigitator Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos Any way I suppose I was spoiled by Dnd books that had no errors.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos Any way I suppose I was spoiled by Dnd books that had no errors' date=' stat wise, that I found.[/quote'] I'm a fan of D&D, but even I can acknowledge that it's books have their share of miscalculations and typos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted August 25, 2010 Report Share Posted August 25, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos I'm a fan of D&D' date=' but even I can acknowledge that it's books have their share of miscalculations and typos.[/quote'] "% in Liar" being among the most famous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted August 25, 2010 Report Share Posted August 25, 2010 Re: Hero System Books Have Way to many Typos "% in Liar" being among the most famous. LOL, where exactly is that in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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