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From: Spanky The Man <SpankyTheMan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: TSR Initiative - Dungeon Master Screen and Master Index (2.5E) - "Dungeon Master Screen and Master Index (2E).pdf" (00/33) 9.6 MBytes yEnc
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On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 14:01:39 -0500, Vreejack
<homeless.beggar@internet.crossroads.usa> wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 01:45:38 -0500, Spanky The Man
><SpankyTheMan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It also included a
>>largely superfluous (and incredibly uninteresting) "Master Index",
>>which gave page numbers to all the various rules, monsters and spells
>>of the new 2.5E books. I suppose it was intended to add some extra
>>value to the product but I don't know anyone who ever used it.
>I used it.
Well, you're just odd ;-)
>>Same story with these screens as the rest; the original scans did not
>>maintain the correct order of the panels, and there were no clear
>>references on the net. Cross-referencing images was the only way to
>>get things back in order. Unfortunately, this scan is not perfect; one
>>of the panels is missing a 1/2" of text on the bottom and despite my
>>best attempts to clean it up I was unable to restore the screen
>>completely. Still, it's a far cry better than it started.
>My scan is from the same source. It's also missing the left edge,
>which is pretty stupid for a scan of a table. I might be able to
>reconstruct the data as it looks pretty familiar. I'll use the index.
>:)
I noticed that. I did a lot of reconstruction on that screen already
(if you zoom in on the the middle and rightmost panels of "Screen-1
Back", you can see where I recreated the left edges of both). I had to
get the info from one of the Players Options book. Unfortunately, I
wasn't able to do the same for Screen-1 Front middle so there's a gap.
Also, the Screen-1 Back left and right panels have the same
information on them (both are Critical Hits: Piercing vs Humanoids).
This seems strange to me, but - from what I can tell based on my
research - is correct. I looked at pictures (admittedly blurry and at
weird angles) and it looked like the published DM screens duplicated
those pages too. Weird. Maybe TSR ran out of charts? ;-)
>Shield proficiency is cut off on the left. It should read
>"This is the maximum number of times in one combat round that the
>shield can be used to protect a character."
>From PHBOR1 TSR02149 Players Option Combat and Tactics
>Top left. The mising text under Battle Tactics in the
>first column is
>
>Shield Wall
>Mounted Charge
>Archery from Horseback
>(half-move)
>Archery from Horseback
>(full-move)
>
>The Psionic Combat chart is from
>PHBOR2 TSR02154 Player's Option Skills & Powers
>table 76, page 148
>It can probably be cut and pasted.
>
>For the knockdowns table it probably reads something like this:
>"**Modifiers are applied to base weapon knockdown dice. For
>example, a bugbear wielding a morningstar has a knockdown die
>of d12 against humans, as a morningstar is a d10 weapon and a
>bugbear is one size larger than a human."
<sigh> I hate you ;-)
See, I don't actually just type in the missing info. I don't have the
right fonts and getting the sizing just right is always a problem if I
do. So - don't laugh - I cut'n'paste individual letters from other
places to recreate the text. I think the end results looks better than
were I just to type it in but - as you can imagine - it is very
time-intensive. And here you give me half a book to write in... letter
by letter ;-)
Well, tell ya what; I'll put it on the to-do list. Very /low/ on the
to-do list ;-)
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