When Autochthon Dreams released

[wordman]

After way to long, the artifact collection mentioned on this board previously has been released today. Thanks to all who contributed. Enjoy!

 

[Ker'ion]

YAY!!!

 

[Joni-san]

Nice.

 

[strawberryleaves]

Very impressive. Congratulations to everyone who had a part in making it a reality.


Wordman, who was the source of When Autochthon Dreams? The title, I mean. You mentioned in the previous thread that it was from elsewhere, bud didn't elaborate.

 

[wordman]

Wordman, who was the source of When Autochthon Dreams? The title, I mean. You mentioned in the previous thread that it was from elsewhere, bud didn't elaborate.

Quendalon, made here.

 

[Ker'ion]

Wordman, who was the source of When Autochthon Dreams? The title, I mean. You mentioned in the previous thread that it was from elsewhere, bud didn't elaborate.

Quendalon, made here.

I liked this one:
- A DIY Guide for the Educated Artificer - suggested by Han'ya


and as for ''The Wandering Bazaar" - suggested by Smeggedoff, I've already got one of those.


It's a booth that looks like the one the peddler at the beginning of (Disney's) "Aladdin", complete with said peddler and the broken combination hookah and coffeemaker (also makes julienne fries) sitting in the corner getting the occasional dirty looks and comments from the peddler. He sells a little of everything.


Well, that and the shop from DiscWorld occasionally shows up too.

 

[cyl]

Ah salaaaam :lol:


This is a damn good job...

 

[Flagg]

I'm thoroughly impressed. If it were not for the useful index, I'd think it was an official WW release.

 

[Arthur]

I had no idea the book would build up to this scale. It's big, useful and well diagrammed. And I love the glimpse Jukashi gave us on Misho's past.

 

[Forn Clakes]

Congratulations on creating something truly special. I second Flagg's remarks on everything. I spent two hours reading it on Sunday night (to the dismay of my wife).


Well done.


~FC.

 

[Persell]

And I love the glimpse Jukashi gave us on Misho's past.

That's not the only glimpse he's put out.


Hmm... I like the book as well. Niggling editting flaw though: On the last page of any chapter, the Old Realm Script in the top left is grey instead of black like every other page. But that's the only thing I could find wrong with it, so I guess that makes it pretty damn awesome.

 

[Solfi]

Oh, sweetness!


... This I gotta give a once-over of.

 

[Solfi]

Well, I started reading it. So far it's very nice stuff. But of course. I have nitpicks. Don't I always? :-)

• Shields flow on the way of strikes.

  I interpret it as "Shields flow in the way of strikes"
  

• When fully harmonized, they add one success to all the solar’s
  attacks, and allow the solar to, a number of times in a scene
  equal to half their Essence (rounded up), channel a virtue
  through them not to add the Virtue in dice, but to make a perfect
  action, offensive or defensive—an attack that will always
  hit, even if with one success after defenses, or a perfect, but not
  applicability-trumping, defense.

  This was a mouthful. It should really be split up into more than one sentence. Also, watch the references - they get kind of muddy here.... I'm not entirely sure I am interpreting this sentence correctly either way...
  

• Orichalcum armor becomes perfect, becoming immune to
  piercing attacks and those that ignore armor soak or a shield’s difficulty penalty. No effect will circumvent, lower or remove its protection of the solar, in any possible way. This is a perfect effect.

  Ok, I gather the intent here is to say that attacks made against such harmonized armor will not benefit from the soak halving effect of armor-piercing attacks, nor effects that ignore armor soak or shield difficulty penalties. It's not really a difficult passage, but the wording in the first sentence above could be made not to suggest that the armor is in fact *completely immune* to an attack that normally benefits from being armor-piercing. It's just not counted as armor-piercing.
  

• When one successfully strikes at the abyssal' date=' one loses motes equal to the armor’s base artifact rating, which replenishes the abyssal’s own essence reserves.[/quote']Thematically I think it would be more appropriate if the Essence was simply lost (especially since Wooden Jade has the same effect). Maybe increase the amount of Essence lost to balance it against the effectiveness of the Wood Jade type?

• On the section about Starmetal (Page 9): Although I find it thematically appropriate that a Fate-based weapon does more damage against beings outside of Fate, as they oppose them, I have mixed feelings about it doing so using a Fate-based power. So to speak. That's always been the rub of the Sidereal purview. They can do amazing thing within the Tapestry. But being that are intrinsically outside it are ... Well, not viable target for that kind of effect. Or maybe it works by dragging the being temporarily into the tapestry? A temporary Destiny as it were?

 

[wordman]

Thanks for the typos and grammatical stuff. Everyone keep those coming. I sort of followed a "proofread until you get sick of it" method on this one, which isn't that conducive to good editing. So chances are I'll put out a 1.1 version with that kind of stuff corrected at one point. (No one has mentioned the most glaring typo of all yet, though Tome came close, sort of.)


As for the mechanical stuff, any disagreements or questions should probably be taken up with the authors. In this case, the project's wiki page would lead you to the page for that particular entry.

 

[wordman]

I hope to wrap up the 1.1 release by the end of this week. Anyone see any more typos and such?

 

[Solfi]

Gah! Sorry Wordman... I had a file full of more nitpicks, but now I've managed to misplace and/or delete it...

 

[wordman]

If you can remember any, please let me know. Just for kicks I'm going to submit it to the Ennies (for whatever their "free on-line shit" category is), so I'd like to get it wrapped up in the next few weeks.

 

[wordman]

Last chance to tell me about typos. I hope to release 1.1 over the weekend.

 

[Solfi]

Sorry mate, I don't think I'll be able to muster the enthusiasm to read through the supplement a second time, just to check for typos. :| ... also, I'm too engrossed in the Infernals book right now anyways.

 

[The zombie cat]

Dam, looks like I am going to be that guy.


I don’t like the section on the magical materials, the idea of the greater alchemy is good but the lesser alchemies have been changed from exalted 2. it is nice to see MM powers for shields although I cant seem to locate the artifact shield to apply them too. Also the artifact levels for armor where reduced ‘That way, artifact armor will easily be able to be supplemented with extra abilities†but I can’t seem to find any such abilities listed.


I don’t think it is the place of a fan supplement to change mechanics. While I actually like the changes they should have been presented as possible house rules, not how things are.


The mechanics for water dust look very first edition. Including a character being unable to act for the rest of the round and possibly the next round as well. Its difficult to know exactly what this means under the second edition tick system. There are several other instances of this type of edition confusion in the book.


The artifacts seem mostly good.


I especially like the polar compass, although the writer didn’t fully understand the power of math. A skilled mortal (high school student with a good head for math, int+lore 6) can reliably give you your position to near perfect accuracy (limited only by the resolution of the compass) with a pencil and paper and about half an hours arithmetic. Also, the average high school student 10 years ago had the appropriate book of tables. It’s the sin, cos, tan set. I don’t know if the tables are bothered with now, even in my day we all used calculators but the table was in the book we could take to exams.


Have only got half way threw artifact 2 stuff so far,


Edward

 

[wordman]

I don’t like the section on the magical materials

Understood. I' date=' however, am not really responsible for the actual content of the articles; that would be up to their authors. What I'm looking for here are things like "this line is missing a word" or "this is misspelled" or "the phrasing here is funky". If you want to comment on the content of the articles themselves, your best best is to hit the wiki's page for the book, follow the link to the original article, and add your comments there; the original author is more likely to see them.

I don’t think it is the place of a fan supplement to change mechanics.

It probably comes as no surprise that I totally disagree with this statement . I think it is precisely the place of fan supplements to change mechanics.

While I actually like the changes they should have been presented as possible house rules' date=' not how things are.[/quote'] This confuses me a bit. Isn't the entire book presented as possible house rules? That article in particular starts with the line "This system replaces and expands the benefits and methods of attuning to the five magical materials." How would you have phrased it?

The mechanics for water dust look very first edition... There are several other instances of this type of edition confusion in the book.

Yeah, since the articles were largely written over a five year span, some (most) were 1E, some were 2E and some were both. I tried to address this when I found it, but probably missed a bunch. The writer of that particular article is more touchy than most when it comes to making edits to her stuff, but I'll see what I can do. What other places did you notice this?

I especially like the polar compass' date=' although the writer didn’t fully understand the power of math. A skilled mortal (high school student with a good head for math, int+lore 6) can reliably give you your position to near perfect accuracy (limited only by the resolution of the compass) with a pencil and paper and about half an hours arithmetic.[/quote']Well, as the writer of that article and someone who once was a "high school student with a good head for math", I'll stand by my mechanics. One success on that test would provide a better indication of location than any real-world sailor would have had prior to the introduction of accurate maritime clocks. Five successes would be like GPS level accuracy (and not totally out of reach on six dice, or nine using a more accurate compass). And doing it without trig tables would suck (and would probably be out of reach of the high school student), hence added difficulty for not having them.