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Post Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:29 pm 
 

Hi all!

I ran across a typo todya and I remembered having noticed it before and chuckling, which got me to thinking it would be fun to have people post funny typos they have come across in RPG prodcuts.
My entry: Page 30 of Undermountain : Stardock, third paragraph under Aria 3 (Priamon's Lair), first line:

The chest of holding acts just like a bug of holding,

Uncharacteristically, I will not make any crude jokes abuot the typo. It's funny as is.
Anyone else? The one hwo posts the best typo gets the title of "RPG Typo King" for the rest of 2019. Perhaps Foul can create a tag to go with the username.......


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Post Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 2:47 pm 
 

I don't know about later prints, or different ones, but Encyclopedia Magica, Volume 1 for 2nd edition AD&D had a sloppy replace error where someone searched and removed "mage" for "wizard" resulting in numerous instances of effects doing "dawizard" or producing "iwizard" instead of damage/image.

It is only a portion of the book, as I recall. Maybe 20 pages or so.


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Post Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:57 am 
 

copycat wrote in Amusing RPG Typos:I don't know about later prints, or different ones, but Encyclopedia Magica, Volume 1 for 2nd edition AD&D had a sloppy replace error where someone searched and removed "mage" for "wizard" resulting in numerous instances of effects doing "dawizard" or producing "iwizard" instead of damage/image.

It is only a portion of the book, as I recall. Maybe 20 pages or so.


Great.... Now I'm going to have to search through my copy tonight...
  

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 3:09 pm 
 

Deadlord wrote in Amusing RPG Typos:Hi all!

I ran across a typo todya and I remembered having noticed it before and chuckling, which got me to thinking it would be fun to have people post funny typos they have come across in RPG prodcuts.
My entry: Page 30 of Undermountain : Stardock, third paragraph under Aria 3 (Priamon's Lair), first line:

The chest of holding acts just like a bug of holding,

Uncharacteristically, I will not make any crude jokes abuot the typo. It's funny as is.
Anyone else? The one hwo posts the best typo gets the title of "RPG Typo King" for the rest of 2019. Perhaps Foul can create a tag to go with the username.......


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Post Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:52 pm 
 

One of the earliest from TSR involved the "minionions of Set". Don't recall where tho.


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Post Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 9:30 pm 
 

ExTSR wrote in Amusing RPG Typos:minionions of Set


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Post Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:38 pm 
 

OK, here's one: N5 Under Illefarn. On page 33, the paragraph on the right-side column starting with "The best strategy" says that any PC with a strength of 18 can move stones by hand if they make an ability check on 4d4.
So, unless the DM uses my ex-wife's sliding scale of +/- (1-8) which depends on what favors her the most, I'm guessing the player would be hard pressed to fail......


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