Arrived this morning - boxed. One of my favourite books - so much develops from this storyline. Mini adventure with Captain D'Val. His skills more focussed on Warfare, strategy & tactics rather than Rhygar's individual combat skills. Seems to have the combat sheet from Kalte though. Riding down raider's road at present!
Chasm of Doom
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got my book 4 at work this morning (mega-deal customer) so shall be checking it out tonight, as previous poster states this is one of the best story-driving books in my ever-so humble opinion, and adds to the back story re: darklords vs. summerlund.
i wonder, with errors already reported, if mongoose have tried rushing a bit too much - i'd rather wait (and admittedly grumble) and have a pretty much perfect book, then have pages / sections missing or transposed between copies. as is asked, what sort of quality control is there? i got the impression that for the previous book it was left to the author to make sure there were no errors in the proofs, then this was printed off X copies - no additional proof-reading / limited test run first?
but end with a positive, still big kudos to mongoose for making hard back, last forever versions of the greatest game books ever. EVER.
cheerio
i wonder, with errors already reported, if mongoose have tried rushing a bit too much - i'd rather wait (and admittedly grumble) and have a pretty much perfect book, then have pages / sections missing or transposed between copies. as is asked, what sort of quality control is there? i got the impression that for the previous book it was left to the author to make sure there were no errors in the proofs, then this was printed off X copies - no additional proof-reading / limited test run first?
but end with a positive, still big kudos to mongoose for making hard back, last forever versions of the greatest game books ever. EVER.
cheerio
WritingWolf
Mongoose
Mind you, regarding the small errors (and my book has the correct action chart, though I have just noticed under "Combats" it says Loi-Kymar!) - I seem to recall a previous publisher of Lone Wolf, cough Red Fox cough, putting the wrong map in Book 28!
The errors are small, and I'm glad for the speedy delivery. The book looks great and, to be honest, even the big publishers sometimes have trouble with setting the pages straight or missing words out (the number of Star Wars books I have read with the text just on the page is quite high, considering this is Bantam and Star Wars we are talking about)
The errors are small, and I'm glad for the speedy delivery. The book looks great and, to be honest, even the big publishers sometimes have trouble with setting the pages straight or missing words out (the number of Star Wars books I have read with the text just on the page is quite high, considering this is Bantam and Star Wars we are talking about)
WritingWolf
Mongoose
Hi redsimon - I've always operated on the LW principles for this, so a Bow would count as a Weapon.
Plus I expect a Bow wouldn't fit into his backpack!
Plus I expect a Bow wouldn't fit into his backpack!
AguilaSaber
Mongoose
Unfortunately, it is rather motivated question.
If D'Val only has the Bow and his sword which for story reason he will surely lose half way through, he may end up fighting the rest of the adventure with his bare hands since the Bow cannot be used in close combat.
Strangely none of the men under his command offers him a spare weapon, nor does he loot weapons when he has the chance, or manage to get one from the many people that die during fights that are described.
If D'Val only has the Bow and his sword which for story reason he will surely lose half way through, he may end up fighting the rest of the adventure with his bare hands since the Bow cannot be used in close combat.
Strangely none of the men under his command offers him a spare weapon, nor does he loot weapons when he has the chance, or manage to get one from the many people that die during fights that are described.
WritingWolf
Mongoose
Hmm - good point. Maybe he refuses to use any weapon other than his Bow and his Sword?
Zager Krahl
Mongoose
Well, we can't have LW coming by later and finding "D'Val's Sword" more than once...
