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The question was brought up a few times in the Endless Night GM Reference thread. There was no official word, but the general consensus was that the "door" from B10 to B13 is trapped; if the trap is disarmed with the password, you can pass through to B13 normally. You can just see the hole in the floor on the map in B13 that matches up with the hole in the ceiling in B10.

So, yeah, the map orientation is unfortunate, but I believe you would go from B1 Entry Hall to B6 Guest Lounge to B5 Stairwell to B7 Hall of Mages to B8 Central Laboratory to B10 Master's Library to B13 Vonnarc Collection to B14 Alicavness's Refuge. (B3 Apprentice's Library leads to B4 Study Hall.)

All this. Thank you! I didn't know about the GM Reference Thread. Good stuff.

So correct me from your experience or own understanding, do players going to Alicavniss lair follow the route of:

B1-stairs to B6.
B6-through door to B5.
B5-stairs to B7.
B7-through the doors to B8.
B8-stairs to B10.

Am I mistaken, but is the Tower Solacas confusing from a map perspective?

The First floor map (p. 20) of House Vonnarc shows a North-top map of the first floor of the Tower Solacas. B1 has a set of stairs to...

And here's where it falls apart. The rest of the tower (p. 32) is North-bottom oriented. That's ok-ish, but it does require one to reorient the book or page! Worse, just turning the book then reveals that it's mirrored? Yes it is! Argh.

So correct me from your experience or own understanding, do players going to Alicavniss lair follow the route of:

B1-stairs to B5.
B5-stairs to B7.
B7-through the doors to B8.
B8-stairs to B10.

But then the descriptions go silent. The Passage to the Void trap in B10 is described in some detail, and the map suggests that the circular opening is a passage to B13, when deactivated, but re-reading it, it really really doesn't say.

Thoughts from the community?

Thank you both! The art is very easy for me to mod back onto the mini. Deep Cuts is a stretch on this one, the "ribbons" are muddled and it was not obvious.

An image is helpful... . I don't have "cred" on the board to put images I suppose. I lurk a lot.

Thought I’d crowd source while waiting for an answer from WizKids twitter feed. 



Pathfinder Deep Cuts Male Elf Rogue (73854). There is something on his tabard's lower right panel, a set of ribbons? What is this? Preparing to paint and curious.

Thanks. Feels PF trope-ish.

Thought I’d crowd source while waiting for an answer from WizKids twitter feed. 



Pathfinder Deep Cuts Male Elf Rogue (73854). There is something on his tabard's lower right panel, a set of ribbons? What is this? Preparing to paint and curious.

Thanks. Feels PF trope-ish.

I am curious what the bug is ...

It turns out to be a fairly ubiquitous bug that was present in freetype, a *nix library for rendering glyphs defined in a PDF, which I tracked down in several *nix board discussions and specifically located the details from the following post: PDF is missing the letter "A" throughout the document. OK when viewed in Windows.

More, Mac OS X (SL, 10.6) SDKs deliver a freetype version that appears to be 2.0.4. Significantly behind the current version of 2.4.1. It is unclear as to whether Preview uses the freetype library and if so what version.

It might be possible for an enterprising Mac OS X user to recompile Preview against a newer version of freetype... I might just try that... if that is what Preview is using.

Uranium Dragon wrote:

Just purchased the PDF of the Core Rule Book and the Conversion file.

So how come the letter "A" is missing from the titles and section headers? Is this meant to be some sort of mine canary - to detect pirated copy?

If you're using Preview under OS X 10.6, it's a bug in that application. Try Adobe Reader.

If you're using an older PDF viewer on Linux, look for an update—everybody else fixed that bug a while ago.

Late to the discussion, but thought I would chime in with some version details on my experience.

Adobe 9.3.3 on Mac OS X (SL, 10.6.4) looks good.
Preview 5.0.2 (504) seems to drop the letter 'A" from titles and section headers.

I am curious what the bug is and if it's something I can hack out of/or into my file, or possibly fix in Mac OS X itself via a preference or other tweak (I'm talented that way and would share). I've noticed the problem also is present in iBooks on my iPhone and it seems to be present across files I own (Core RB and RotRL PG).