bbarsh wrote:A few days ago I pulled my mono D3 2nd printing and decided I would read through it out of nostalgia. I get a few pages in and find a major problem on page 6.

There are three preset encounters prior to entering the vault. Well, about half the description for the first encounter does not exist. The text starts at the top of page six in mid sentence. The encounter is Q2 49.

I checked it against my sixth (color) print and the problem is no longer there.

Anyone got a first print or 3rd print to check for the same error. Also, if you have a 2nd print, can you check to confirm this problem is uniform throughout 2nd prints.

It's not in the first print.  The last full paragraph at the bottom of page 5 starts "The western building houses the Drow commanders."  The last line on the bottom of page 5 is "viscid globs.  (This weapon is a metallic baton with 48 charges in".  The text continues at the top of page 6:  "it.  Range is 6"."  And so on.

I think Gary may have meant to edit most of the encounter out...or he may have meant to significantly alter it and forgot the omission...or a page might have fallen from the floor at the printers.

   Anyway, all original copies I have seen have the same error.

Mark  

bbarsh wrote:That is exactly how page 6 picks up. " it. Range is 6"."

Page 5 ends with description of Kua Toan War Party, which also may not be complete.

Kuo-Toan War Party figured it out for me.  That's page 5 of D2, not D3!  I don't have early enough printings to verify, but try cross referencing it with a copy of D2.  Very interesting stuff.

chromaticknight wrote:Finally got around to checking these. I have mono prints 1st - 4th. All 4 of them are complete. No missing descriptions. I have yet to find a 5th print mono

I checked the D2 2nd print as deimos pointed out, it does have the kuo-toan war party as the last paragraph.
Very strange.

  I think I just read contradictory facts.  IS the 2nd printing the garbled version or not?

My 2nd print D3 is not garbled.

I was agreeing with deimos, that maybe some part of D2 had gotten substituted into bbarshs' copy. As page 5 in D2 ends with the kuo-toa war party description. Hope that explains it better  :wink:

My second print D2 is normal (pages 4-6 all flow normally, no problems).  Ditto for my second print D3.

We obviously do have two printings of the Second print D3.  They obviously caught the problem in time, switched the incorrect plate out, and kept printing... or only the guy at the printing press caught it, and figured, "I'm not going to trash 5,000 modules just for a screwed-up page, I could lose my job!", switched the plate himself, and continued printing.  TSR probably never noticed -- I'd think they would have demanded a reprint of those "damaged" copies.

I'm going to try and edit the top post in this thread to insert a poll.  Be interesting to see how many copies of each version are out there.

Foul

I'll have to dig out my copies tomorrow and see if I have any 2nd printings or not

My copy is in shrinkwrap, so I'll never know. Schrödinger's cat, you know?

AdderMcOne wrote:So you therfore have a copy both with and without the 'error'  

Precisely. Fifty percent of both.