Badmike wrote:Shocked at the amount of typos and badly worded paragraphs here, especially since this thing has supposedly been looked at by many, many proofreaders in the last five years. I found bunches of spelling and grammar errors right off. Some of the paragraphs are worded so badly I had to read them a couple times to get the gist.
Badmike wrote:The maps aren't just bad. They are hideous.
TheHistorian wrote:I hope work on L5 can be more structured.
Badmike wrote:I enjoyed the depth of description to several of the villages and hamlets, which could be transplanted wholesale to your own campaigns. I think it plays better as a travelogue than an actual module adventure. Some of the characters are quite interesting and i could see using them as NPCs.
Len's magic items (described in the module) are a treat. However, his explanation of magic items, their plusses to hit and damage (either or both), is so unneccesarily complicated I can't see anyone ever using it unless you simply wanted to make your D&D game even more confusing.
deimos3428 wrote:Agreed completely. There are some nice unique magic items, but the part about the terminology "+1 arrow +1", etc. is a bit too much. The only other criticism I have at this point is the detailed color artwork in a PDF. It just never looks good, and it's because you scale the PDF to your screen. If you must have art stick to vector-based b&w with clean lines, folks.
mbassoc2003 wrote:I suspect the die hard DFers will pick up on our negativity and moan and flame about this nitpicking and how "speling ins't that impotent" over on the DF board. I'd be willing to bet the contributor's managed to check if they'd got their own names right though.
JohnGaunt wrote:While this Acaeum thead is good for Acaeum members to sort out the problems with L4, Dragonsfoot is really the place to post or PM criticisms and suggestions.For example, I can post "Can a revised and corrected version be released soon? Such a version should be easy to produce now that the rough draft has been savaged" all day long at the Acaeum, but that has no real effect on Dragonsfoot.Politely PMing GnarleyBones and others might be effective in getting some response to the concerns listed in this thread.
Quote from Gnarley:Yes, by all means, please list your errata after it's posted; I can perfectly understand how the speedy production prevented the editors from making all the necessary changes. We're not making any changes; all editing should have been completed long ago.
Sir Clarence wrote:Being the one who made the maps, all I can say is that Len was adamant in his wish that they should be drawn with CC2 and also look this way.Some of you might know that I much more prefer the old blue&white map style myself, and usually draw these for other DF modules as well as for Black Blade Publishing for example. I tried to persuade Len to use maps like these, but he denied, and since he was the boss, things went on as he wanted them. I wish it would have been different, but it shouldn't be so. Still, it was great fun working together with Len on this.
bbarsh wrote:Is it just me or is really very little buzz about this release. Over at DF there is surprisingly very little comment other than a few congrats to LL who added a Q/A thread. How long have people been waiting for this thing. I know it took more than 4 years, but the rumors of additional L series mods have been around much longer than that. And when you consider this is about as close to a TSR release as you will ever see again, I am astounded by the lackluster reception. Crap, there is moe posted here about it than over at DF. I only drop in from time to time over there and pretty much stay in the classic D&D thread.
Badmike wrote:Were these done early in the process (i.e. a few years ago?). I would have thought more publications the last few years using the blue/white scheme might have persuaded Len otherwise.
Badmike wrote:On a 3rd read through it strikes me how difficult the entire thing is to even make sense of....not a good thing. I don't even think you can "play" this module.....it's more like a sourcebook of locations than anything else.
Sir Clarence wrote:After all this correspondence with Len, I got the impression that his dream is to one day have the whole of Lendore Isle published that way.