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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 3854815" data-attributes="member: 3608">Let's see...working from memory...The adjustments to your attributes (basic wha-cha-ma-call-its) from abilities are kind of pointless. They're kind of interesting flavor, but there's very few cases in which they actually mean very much, because the bonus they give you is well within the slop of your initial choices for those scores. It's just extra complication for a small amount of flavor.I also think it would've made it simpler if the one attribute that's on a different scale were kept on the same scale & the division postponed until you use it.If any of that makes any sense. Those are the first things that came to mind.I don't think there's any old news to be had. I get the impression that for some people in my group, Gygax's name on something is more of a red-flag than a commendation. We all have things like that. (There are certain names that will cause me the same sort of reaction when seen on a RPG product.) Well justified or not.In fact, I kind of felt that way about Gygax myself after my experience with Mythus. (^_^)When I first got Essentials, I posted a long list of errata to a thread on the LA forums. Others joining in as well. The horrendous editing problems--no big deal. I only documented them to try to help the trolls out. The places where the rules were unclear--not much of a big deal either. It's a Gygax game; figure out what works for your group. Though it would be nice to know what the intention was.But there were big things--like entire spell (...er...activation) descriptions missing. That's the kind of thing I really expect the publisher to address. Every time I've bothered to check the LA board or the trolls' site to see if they'd addressed them, I never found anything. I eventually gave up.Which may very well keep me from bothering to pick up the "full" TLG version of LA whenever it appears.No. I haven't even had a chance to run the quick start. I keep putting it out there as an option, but I've not gotten any bites yet. There's plenty of other stuff on my "to play" list, so I haven't really made an effort, though.BTW, I also picked up a second-hand copy of The Abduction of Good King Despot on Gary's recommendation, which I think would make a fine LA one-off.Amen. I don't think Gary did the game any favors in this regard. But, hey, we all have our quirks. This is another reason, however, that I'd rather create a stripped down version; I could change some things to more standard jargon so that we don't have to waste time making fun of so many the non-standard terms. (Which my group--including me--could not avoid.)</blockquote>

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