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Project Update: Serpents of Legend PDF Released! (Garden of Evil updated)

A finished version of Serpents of Legend has been published and sent via Backerkit Digital Downloads to all supporters!

As part of finishing this book, we added more playtesters to Garden of Evil, as well as a substantial fix/rewrite to the section on climbing on large monsters, which was updated when we took a harder look at the existing rules plus others for Serpents of Legend.

I expect to have the Bugstiary in hand by ... the end of the weekend if things go to plan. But I wasn't expecting a two-day internet outage either, so as always, Life Happens.

Once all three books are in your hands, I will do several things:

  • Update the internal monster spreadsheets for the books so that things are consistent
  • Spool out the card files, and adjust them. This is tedious but not really the same as generating new content. 
  • Then start working with Nick, Nose, and Neck to get the Foundry VTT module in hand

As always...


Errata: See Something, Say Something!


As always, Gaming Ballistic encourages and welcomes feedback on any mistakes that you see, so I can correct them before the book(s) go to print. PDFs can of course be adjusted at any time...but having errors in the print copy is irksome.

So if you see something that needs fixing, please head on over to https://gamingballistic.com/errata and submit a report.

Gaming Ballistic Errata Page

Things that are definitely errata?
  • Spelling errors
  • Grammar mistakes (be sure, though - there are lots of different style guides)
  • Rules mistakes (again, be sure)
  • Formatting issues for text, italics, titles, game-mechanical call-outs, etc

The borderline one is "clarity," where something is presented in a way that may be confusing. Another good one is "I'd really like a pointer to the page in [Book title] where the rule is. That one I can usually try and fit in if layout isn't too tight.

Things that are not errors, though:
  • No point values for monsters. This is not a mistake. 
  • "I'd have done this differently."
  • I don't like this/that art
  • I don't like Fantastic Dungeon Grappling. 
  • One fun one: "Immunity to X" doesn't exist in GURPS. "Yes, but we're not playing GURPS, are we?" -Mr. Gibbs.
  • Related: [Advantage/Disadvantage/Trait] doesn't work like that in GURPS.

The first one there is simply a line-level decision: The Dungeon Fantasy RPG doesn't really do points for monsters, a decision of SJGames which I wholeheartedly endorse. So that's not an error.

FDG came in every reprinted box set and is a core part of the GB rules corpus. So that's not up for debate either.

The last two are both a result of the fact that the Dungeon Fantasy RPG isn't 100% GURPS, and any rules citations or interpretations must come from the Boxed Set. I've gotten "this is wrong" from surprising quarters too. Also, since this is a monsters book: if you're going to yell at me about how a trait works...check Monsters first! Sometimes, things are different there for critters, especially for monster-specific traits.
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