PCI Eric wrote:
Blusponge wrote:
Action Rolls, p 183...
They are on the same overleaf, so the examples are on the same open point for a reader of the printed book.
Ah! Now that's something I wasn't able to see. Sorry, breezing through the pdf and scribbling notes, stealing a few minutes during Dora the Explorer doesn't allow a lot of in depth analysis. I can sell that if they are on facing pages. And, BTW, thanks adding the attack example in this section!
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They are different lengths, the amount of disruption to every following page would be enormous and it is not a reference item - once a person reads and understands the process it would not need to be found again.
Graphic designer by trade and VERY much aware of spacial demands and how tricky those can be to overcome sometimes. Though there are times they can be worth the effort. Which brings me too...
PCIHenry wrote:
I looked at the page you mentioned and this is not the case. Am I looking at the wrong page?
If you mean that one portion of the chart is longer than the other, that's not an error. At this point, we're going to concentrate on actual errors and not stylistic and subjective points.
However, if there is an actual error, then please point it out.
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Just to be clear, we are talking about the Threat Prices table on page 237, where the Animal Control header and section butt right up against the table. I considered a screen shot, but I don't think that's necessary.
Ok, no actual error here, but I wouldn't call it entirely stylistically subjective either. I'd put it up there right under having an image split a line of text. Since the follow up section (Threat Prices, pg 244) doesn't mirror that style, it looks like a formatting error – like something your layout guy forgot to fix, though the real answer probably has to do with spacial demands of the page. I get that. I'll bet you could buy yourself the same space by dropping the leading for the page (NOT just the entry or column, for the love of all that's holy!) by 0.1 or 0.2 points and/or dropping the space between lines by 1 pt.
If you insist on keeping it this way – and I understand why you might choose to do so – AT LEAST add a bit of padding (2 pts, maybe?) between the right border of the table and the left edge of the text. Right now, "This power..." and "to control..." butt right up against the edge of the table and don't help it one bit (again, lending to the appearance of a layout oops).
If you need actual errors, the last cell of the Power Malus (Offensive) table has an arrant border on the left hand side. Oh, and you forgot to add asterisks to any of the powers that can be Enhanced (Blast Attack is right there on the page). (Or don't add asterisks to the table, remove the sentence beginning, "Those powers listed...," and viola, you've bought yourself 3 lines! Or, add asterisks, remove the sentence, and insert it in the socket beneath the Powers Veneficum table where Animal Control currently resides.)
Sorry guys, I just want to stress this is not me looking at the book and saying, "you chose THAT font? Blah!" It does look like someone missed a page by mistake.
Really, the book looks so damn good, it's hard for me to let something like that slip.
Tom