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Please Find Me a Typo in Burning Empires

Started by Justin D. Jacobson, August 16, 2006, 08:43:15 PM

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Justin D. Jacobson

It's not often that I'm humbled upon reading a game, but nevertheless here I am. I snagged a copy of BE at GC for a couple of reasons. Principally, I was pretty excited to be able to get Moeller's doodle/autograph, and I wanted to check out the competition in the big-enough-to-kill-a-rat sci-fi book genre. I started reading this thing on the plane ride home and haven't stopped since. This is a game designer and writer at the very peak of his game, folks. So, lest I end up in a state where I am unable to finish my own endeavors for fear that they won't measure up, I'd like someone to chime in if they found a typo. Anything will do: a dangling modifier, perhaps a comma splice, I'll even settle for an instance of its/it's. Seriously, anything.
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Andrew Morris

Sure thing. I can guarantee it. All you have to do is buy me a copy and send it to me.
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TonyLB

p. 92:  "If your character is not a member of any of the elements you brought into the world via world burning, what the hell is doing here?"

I think there's a pronoun missing somewhere in there.  Feel better now, Justin?
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Iskander

Winning gives birth to hostility.
Losing, one lies down in pain.
The calmed lie down with ease,
having set winning & losing aside.

- Samyutta Nikaya III, 14

Justin D. Jacobson

Quote from: TonyLB on August 16, 2006, 09:10:20 PM
p. 92:  "If your character is not a member of any of the elements you brought into the world via world burning, what the hell is doing here?"

I think there's a pronoun missing somewhere in there.  Feel better now, Justin?
Yes. I can press onward now, comforted by the fact that it's not perfect ... merely ridiculously awesome.
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Luke

there's a few missing articles in the Psychology chapter, too.

-L

Matt Wilson

There was a punctuation mistake on the poster at Gen Con. Does that count?.

TonyLB

And, of course, all of these little details only distract from the huge gaping problem that is the core of the book.  Every other book has, subtly built into its design, the ability for the reader to put it down and do other things.  Somehow Luke seems to have missed including this most fundamental of features.  Because of this error, what I ended up buying is less a "book" than it is a hypnotic entrapment device.
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