I found two minor errors in Issue 140's STAP installment.
On page 38, the first column says that Huntress Lorb-Lorb Tub will rage and fight to the death if one of her hunters falls, or if she herself is attacked. The second column says that she is not stupid enough to fight to the death and will attempt to flee if reduced to fewer than 10 hp.
And then on page 44, Bua Gorg's alignment is listed as CN. I'm pretty sure that should be CE.
Yeah. I just crossed off "to the death" (the later text seems much more well thought out). Also, Liamae (p. 41) is CN, not LN, which might make a BIG difference in how she acts towards her (likely heavily-wounded) rescuers.
The stat block for Navesh Wyvernsting on pg 20 is missing Evasion, Trap Sense +1, Sneak Attack +2d6 and death throes.
Shouldn't Lavinia now be a CR3 now that she's added the level of Swashbuckler?
The CR is correct. Her 2 NPC class levels only count as 1 towards her CR, thus Artistocrat 2/Swashbuckler 1 is a CR 2 NPC. See pg. 37 of the Dungeon Master's Guide ("Challenge Ratings for NPCs").
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Yeah; in "There Is No Honor," Lavinia was CR 2 becasue while she had 2 NPC class levels, she also had an elite array for stats. When she gained a swashbuckler level, her CR didn't change becasue now, the elite array is considered part of her swashbuckler level and her NPC class levels count as one less.
I like to call weird rules like this "editor traps."
Thanks for clearing up that CR question, James, but what about all the other errata brought up? Will Paizo confirm or deny errata such as these for past publications, and if so, will there be any erratas published for each adventure (or the adventure path as a whole)?
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Thanks for clearing up that CR question, James, but what about all the other errata brought up? Will Paizo confirm or deny errata such as these for past publications, and if so, will there be any erratas published for each adventure (or the adventure path as a whole)?
The dirty secret is, there will always be errors in Dungeon. We try to catch all of them, or at least as many as we can, but with less than a month to edit what amounts to about 75 pages of content, errors are unfortunately a fact of life. There are indeed errors, and as they come up and are noted on these messageboards I'll certainly drop by and confirm or deny errors, but as for "in print" errata... well, we barely have time to get the map supplements and conversion notes out, and I'm afraid they'd take higher priority than a in print eratta.
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To address some of the errata mentioned in this thread, though:
Huntress Lorb-Lorb Tub does not fight to the death. If reduced to less than 10 hp, she tries to escape.
Bua Gorg's correct alignment should indeed be chaotic evil, but frankly, it works mechanically as chaotic neutral as well.
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Liamae is indeed chaotic neutral. Note: chaotic neutral does NOT indicate that she's mean or evil. If she's rescued by the PCs, she'll no doubt be quite graeful and thankful to them, and her attitude and reaction to the PCs in large part depends on how they treat her. If they're friendly and kind, she can certainly become a strong ally and companion to the PCs.
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For those interested in reasons... issue #140 fell int the dreaded "GEN CON ZONE." That is to say, the editorial staff loses close to two weeks of work time on one magazine a year since we're dealing with Gen Con. This year, it happened to be issue #140, and we weren't able to dedicate as much time to editing it as we wanted. A little of this schedule tightening slipped into issues #141 and #142, which we're going to press on on Monday and we're still not done editing. So I should probably stop posting errata for older magazines when I'm trying to keep errors out of the newer magazines...
It's one of them vicious ciricle deals.