Untold Primer PDF errata and questions

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Table of Contents
needs updating (page references not correct)

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Page 7, Section 1.5 The Objective, first paragraph:
... such as Swapping and Downgrading. For more information on those, please check Sections 5.5 and 5.6, ...

Wrong section references; they should be 2.5+2.7, and 3.9, respectively. Section 5 is about Battle

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Page 8, Formatting and Terminology
please see Section 8 included in this document

There is no Section 8 in this document (at Wandering Men, perhaps there is). There is no Section regarding terms and definitions.

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Section 10, table about Race Card
The swap type needed to play this card. (See Section 5 for more information).

Section 5 is about Battle; Swap types are covered in 4.6. This is replicated also in the tables regarding Aspect, Power, Bane and Minion cards.

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Page 14, Example:
The GM calls for our hero’s player to make a Wisdom check

What is a Wisdom check? Wisdom is not an Aspect; is it a trait, a power, or does this need to be explained or re-written?

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Page 16, Section 3.4 Header:
3.4 Durations

Section 3.3 is Durations; Section 3.4 should be Ranges

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Page 16: Table under 3.5:
The table used both "D20" and "d20" notations; the "d20" is used elsewhere, so these should be aligned for consistency. (Its correct on the poster)

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Page 18, Example under 3.6.3:
For example, a fellow character could cut through the SML Net, thus freeing the IMMOBILE character

How would this task be judged? Should it be an improvised Challenge task, a Check of some type, or simply ruled automatic? This distracts from the intended example.

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Page 19, Section 3.6.7, Healing Powers
As seen on the card above, “Field Medic Pack”

There is no 'card above'.

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Page 19, Section 3.7 Boosts:
Can a given Boost pool (say, Body Boost), be split within a round? Or in cases where Boost is committed to a Power, must all of the Boost be used?

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Page 20, Section 3.8.1 Initiative, Note "acting on another's initiative"
their initiative then changes to whomever’s initiative value is lower

Is this a 'permanent' change of initiative value over the course of multiple rounds, or just a 'delay' for this one round?

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Page 24, 3.11 subsection "Natural Healing"
Characters normally regain lost UP at a rate of 1 UP plus 1 UP per total Aspect rank per day.

What is meant here by 'rank', a term not used elsewhere? What if you don't have Aspect cards, but only the Race card?

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Page 26, Section 4.5 Trash and Treasure
please refer to the IMPORTANT! note under Understanding Time Swaps, above

The section is actually 'below, Section 4.6 Understanding Story, Site, and Time Swaps

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Page 26, Section 4.5 Trash and Treasure
For more information on Downgrading and how it can effect Power Cards (especially Equipment cards), please see Section 5.6.

Downgrading is handled in Section 3.9 Downgrading -- Damage in Untold

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Great catches, but there's a catch... :P

Hey, great catches,Bob! However, we took the pdf down to scrub it, so you should not have been able to access it (ERP!); where'd ya find the link, anyways? I thought we removed all of them from the site! :P

But wow - thanks a ton! :D

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:) The link is on the

:)

The link is on the poster_primer.pdf, lower left corner. Not a 'live' link, but easily type-able.

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Ah ha!

Thanks! I can fix that easy! :) Thanks!

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I am glad to help. When

I am glad to help. When you're ready for external eyes to peruse the new PDF, I would be glad to help with that as well.

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Found hot-links

To the untold_primer.pdf on the http://www.untoldthegame.com/untold-cards page

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Thanks

It has been scrubbed for primer reference links...thanks!

The Online Primer should be the main source of information.

For all that you deserve a UP bonus: +50!

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Be careful what you offer...

We just may take you up on that...

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Please do take advantage of

Please do take advantage of me (well, you know what I mean...) and thank you for the UP!

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woot!

WOO HOO! We shall - thanks! And, you are, of course, most welcome! :D