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<blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 2349320" data-attributes="member: 3397"><p>It honestly took me an hour to find the bloody books on those shelves... Third eds were easy - perfect bound so I could find them by the spine. Problem with hunting through the rows of saddle-stitched titles... and then discovering that sure enough, it isn't with all the saddle-stitched titles, so was hidding somewhere in the middle of my hardcover World of Darkness titles.</p><p></p><p>Now that I'm done that...</p><p></p><p>First edition (1982) has 64 pages. </p><p>Second edition (1990) has 128 pages, and is available in PDF format from RPGnow <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1287&src=EnWorld" target="_blank">http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1287&src=EnWorld</a></p><p></p><p>The big difference is that the 2nd edition includes Lakefront City inside the core book - which I believe was included as a module for 1st edition.</p><p></p><p>They really crammed the information into the first edition - for example, there is no table of contents, and there is material on the inside covers. The third edition is better organized, with the extended chargen material (height, weight, backgrounds, skills, XP, etc) right after the core chargen material instead of after the combat system.</p><p></p><p>In all, they appear to be the same game, with a marginally higher word count per page in the first edition, and the addition of the city background (and thus more NPCs, sample adventures, etc) in the third edition. </p><p></p><p>Oh yeah, and the third edition smells distinctly of cat urine. But that *may* just be my copy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HellHound, post: 2349320, member: 3397"] It honestly took me an hour to find the bloody books on those shelves... Third eds were easy - perfect bound so I could find them by the spine. Problem with hunting through the rows of saddle-stitched titles... and then discovering that sure enough, it isn't with all the saddle-stitched titles, so was hidding somewhere in the middle of my hardcover World of Darkness titles. Now that I'm done that... First edition (1982) has 64 pages. Second edition (1990) has 128 pages, and is available in PDF format from RPGnow [url]http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1287&src=EnWorld[/url] The big difference is that the 2nd edition includes Lakefront City inside the core book - which I believe was included as a module for 1st edition. They really crammed the information into the first edition - for example, there is no table of contents, and there is material on the inside covers. The third edition is better organized, with the extended chargen material (height, weight, backgrounds, skills, XP, etc) right after the core chargen material instead of after the combat system. In all, they appear to be the same game, with a marginally higher word count per page in the first edition, and the addition of the city background (and thus more NPCs, sample adventures, etc) in the third edition. Oh yeah, and the third edition smells distinctly of cat urine. But that *may* just be my copy. :) [/QUOTE]
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