OK, have dug out my file.  I'd actually only looked through a chapter or so, so I've just done a bit more and this now fairly swiftly compared for the the intro and chapters 1-3 of the print book (files sota00-sota02 the way I have them numbered but I can't recall if that was original or me tidying them up!)

I'd started by looking for every difference, so this starts out a bit excessively and possibly not very usefully - and I'm still not guaranteeing it's complete, but it gives you a flavour of what was changed, or not in the cases of some errors that didn't get corrected <sigh>.  Towards the end of Bodysnatchers and then in Homecoming I just started looking for substantive differences.  

Basically if you can't be bothered with all that there are three differences to the end of chapter 3:
illustration missing from book - you may not care!
deck plan of Star Hunter gone from book
deck plan and stats of Alahir gone from book


Just to be clear.  I've compared the freebie individual chapter files (which I think I got from Mongoose pages not DriveThru but not sure) with the printed book.  I've not compared with the electronic version which I expect would be the same as the book but I've not looked.  (Actually, I've just had a quick look and the Star Hunter and Alahir deck plans (and stats of the latter) *are* back in the PDF version of the complete book).

Hope this helps - thus far the PDFs are actually more complete than the print!

I might have a *quick* look through some more another time, but not now.  Must sleep!

tc



Overall 

various bits of tidying to layout – better subtitles, bullet point layout etc.

 

00 Secrets of Secrets

ragged right margin now justified throughout

p.1 para 1 “you’re” “you’ll” changed to “you are” and “you will”; paragraph bold gone

p.1 para 3 “ten linked” now “10 linked”

p.2 para 1 “hundred” now “100” (but “300,000” remains)

p.2 para 3 new paragraph break

p.2 para 5 “SEVEN” now “Seven”

p.3 para 5 “SEVEN” now “Seven”

p.3 para 3 “three hundred thousand” now “300,000”

p.3 para 7 “Arisa” now italics not bold

p.4 para 7 “ten” now “10”;

p.4 para 8 “adventure doesn’t end there” now “does not end there”

p.5 para 0 “wasn’t popular” now “was not popular”

p.6 para 1 “excellent rolls from suitably skilled player characters” now “excellent rolls from 2 suitably Player Characters” (number added and case change)

p.7 para 9 “Kirunir-class” still “Kirunir-class” (i.e. not corrected to Kinunir-class)

p.8 para 8 “SEVEN” now “Seven”

 

01 Bodysnatchers

Title was “Bodysnatchers” now “Body Snatchers”

p.1 para 2 “twenty” now “20”; “hundred” now “100”

p.2 para 4-6 all now in italics (i.e. all the death notice text)

p.2 para 9 “five thousand” now “5,000”

p.3 full page illustration (of starship and planet) removed

p.5 italics removed from description of Public Order Office

p.6 para 3 “We’re Bring Watched” uncorrected

p.7 para 4 “See Assassins!, page XX for more details.” removed

p.7 para 7 italics added to Vlen’s message

p.8 para 13-15 bold of two of the questions now missing making the book harder to read

p.8 para 16 full stop at end of box now added

p.9 para 1 “We’re Being Watched” now “We are Being Watched”

p.10 para 2 “duke’ s” spacing error still not corrected

p.10 “5. Bathrooms” and “12. Bedrooms”  bold now missing (i.e. errors introduced)

p.10 “15. Lounge” – “player characters” now “Player Characters”

p.10 last paragraph – italics now gone, other italics of subsequent Tea and History paragraphs gone

p.11-12 images reduced to fit onto one page, not two

p.13 “hundred” now “100”

p.14 para 2 “player characters” now “Player Characters”

p.14 italics removed from character reading

p.15 para 4 “player characters” now “Player Characters”

p.15 para 5 “both” in italics now bold not italics

p.15 para 9 “fifteen” now “15”

p.16 para 0 “seventeen tons” now “Seventeen tons”

p.16 para 2 “player characters” now “Player Characters”

p.16 italics removed from Startown Nights

p.20 italics removed from conversation text

p.22 italics removed from getting to the station

p.26 alphabetical entry order corrected

 

 

 

02 Homecoming

p.18 deck plans for the 200-ton Star Hunter gone

p.20-21 deck plans and stats for the 1000-ton Alahir gone

 

 

 

 



On 20 May 2014 07:46, David Shaw <dj.shaw@btconnect.com> wrote:


On 19/05/14 22:19, Timothy Collinson wrote:
On 19 May 2014, at 19:36, David Shaw <dj.shaw@btconnect.com> wrote:

I got hold of this adventure when it was being offered as a freebie in several parts on DriveThruRPG.  I now see that it is available to buy and was wondering if it's worth shelling out the cash, as I'm intending to start running it with a group of new-ish Travellers.  Are there any major changes, or have they just cleaned it up, corrected the typos, completed the sentences which stop mid-flow?

There definitely are some variations (I can't recall if they were
actually improvements or just changes).  I thought I had notes on the
differences but I'm not finding them quickly.  Will have a look
tomorrow evening if that's ok. It's getting a bit at now.  Don't let
me forget :-)

tc


No rush, I'm not going to be starting it for a couple of weeks so any time will be fine  :-)


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