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<blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 4572206" data-attributes="member: 16574">Thanks for your kind words. That chapter (to me) is the best part of OSRIC because it takes the existing 1E rules and explains them more clearly and concisely than the actual 1E rulebooks ever did without actually changing them. Of course I may just feel that way because that's the chapter I did the most work on personally <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Regarding your 2nd paragraph, taking the numbers and sub-headers out of the dungeon exploration section was my decision, because I wanted a more free-flowing, conversational essay style and the stricter format interefered with that. However, there should still be bold words at the beginning of each subsection to serve as guideposts (following the same order as the flowchart on pp. 135-6) that appear to have been lost in the formatting:p. 136, 2nd column: &quot;Movement during dungeon exploration...&quot;p. 137, 1st column: &quot;Listening may be performed...&quot;p. 137, 2nd column: &quot;Opening doors is not normally difficult...&quot;p. 138, 1st column: &quot;Mapping is a key element...&quot;p. 138, 2nd column: &quot;Searching for hidden treasure...&quot;p. 139, 1st column: &quot;Disarming traps is normally a job...&quot;p. 139, 1st column: &quot;Casting spells is detailed...&quot;p. 139, 1st column: &quot;Rest periods are typically necessary...&quot;p. 139, 2nd column: &quot;Other actions are defined...&quot;Hey, Stuart: were those bold words removed deliberately or by accident? And if it was the former, can we get them put back in -- pretty please? I agree with Chainsaw that without them that 4 page block of solid text becomes pretty unwieldy (which is not at all the effect I was going for...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="T. Foster, post: 4572206, member: 16574"] Thanks for your kind words. That chapter (to me) is the best part of OSRIC because it takes the existing 1E rules and explains them more clearly and concisely than the actual 1E rulebooks ever did without actually changing them. Of course I may just feel that way because that's the chapter I did the most work on personally ;) Regarding your 2nd paragraph, taking the numbers and sub-headers out of the dungeon exploration section was my decision, because I wanted a more free-flowing, conversational essay style and the stricter format interefered with that. However, there should still be bold words at the beginning of each subsection to serve as guideposts (following the same order as the flowchart on pp. 135-6) that appear to have been lost in the formatting: p. 136, 2nd column: "[b]Movement[/b] during dungeon exploration..." p. 137, 1st column: "[b]Listening[/b] may be performed..." p. 137, 2nd column: "[b]Opening doors[/b] is not normally difficult..." p. 138, 1st column: "[b]Mapping[/b] is a key element..." p. 138, 2nd column: "[b]Searching[/b] for hidden treasure..." p. 139, 1st column: "[b]Disarming traps[/b] is normally a job..." p. 139, 1st column: "[b]Casting spells[/b] is detailed..." p. 139, 1st column: "[b]Rest periods[/b] are typically necessary..." p. 139, 2nd column: "[b]Other actions[/b] are defined..." Hey, Stuart: were those bold words removed deliberately or by accident? And if it was the former, can we get them put back in -- pretty please? I agree with Chainsaw that without them that 4 page block of solid text becomes pretty unwieldy (which is not [i]at all[/i] the effect I was going for...). [/QUOTE]

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