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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simon Collins" data-source="post: 2013565" data-attributes="member: 9860">ArnwynHere is a list of the errors in the stat block for the first character, Dagan the 14th-level Dwarven Fighter:1. Entry that reads hit points instead of hit dice - this listed as 14d10+140. This character has a Con of 22 - therefore should be 14d10+84 (and therefore 245 hit points also wrong). 2. Skill points are calculated incorrectly, so he is at least 14 points short of the skill levels actually given. Thats without factoring in any of the armour check penalties from plate.3. Improved Critical, Weapon Focus, and Weapon Specialisation are not defined in terms of weapon. Which wouldn't be too bad, except that the only weapon the character has is a +4 keen, "might cleaving", vorpal dwarven war axe - a weapon for which he needs the Exotic Weapon Proficiency (at least until v3.5), which is not included on his list of feats.4. The character has Great Cleave as a feat, making the mighty cleaving aspect of his dwarven great axe somewhat redundant. Not an error per se, just not too sharp (excuse the pun).5. He has a +5 shield (type unidentified), and +2 platemail (not identified as full or half plate), which would give a minimum AC bonus of 15 (small shield +5, half plate +2), or maximum of 17 (large shield +5, full plate +2). However, his AC lists the armour bonus as +14.6. His Will save is listed as +6. They presumably forgot to add the bonus from his Iron Will feat. It should be +8 with this included.7. The Attack of his War Axe is at +21/+17/+12/+7. Firstly, a 14th level fighter gets only three attacks per round as standard, not four. Secondly, the progression between the first and second attack is at +4 instead of +5. Thirdly, its wrong - it should start at 22, if weapon specialisation is factored in.8. His speed is listed as 30 ft. This should be 15 ft (for a dwarf in plate).The rest of the characters show similar faults. In fact, on re-reading I would change the comment on editing to average as I found several more mistakes I'd missed first time round in terms of spelling. Not all the above rules comments may be perfect - its just off the top of my head, without reference to books, but most of it will stick.Arnwyn, I'm always willing to try and improve the quality of my reviews. However, this requires _constructive_ criticism from EN World's readership about what they want to see. If you make a crtiticism of a review I have written, I would appreciate some detail about what you would like to see different. In what way was my review unhelpful? I believe most people would be intensely bored by seeing the listing I have just given you - if I say a product has broken stat blocks, I expect most readers to understand that I found several errors such as the ones I listed above, without having to list them one by one. But I'd appreciate your views on this and any other suggestions for improvement.Simon Collins</blockquote>

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