Greetings forum! We are working on compiling a list of all typos/misspellings/etc in the game (both core and Rook City). Below is a list of all of the typos of which we are aware. If you are aware of any others, could you please post them in this thread? Thanks!
Typos in the Core Game
Insula Primalis
-T-Rex attack: should say “target other than itselfâ€Â
Erm… Does Darken the Skies needing hi res pictures count as a typo?
Many of the villain targets seem to have a typo for the number of HPs. 
The inclusion of the T-Rex errata in the list makes it look like you’re looking for not just typos but just any changes that need to be made to the cards? If that’s the case, then here are the errata I’m aware of:
Fanatic/Chastise: instead of “play next to a target other than the villain…” it now reads “play next to a NON-HERO target other than the villain…”
Tachyon/Lightspeed Barrage: instead of “Tachyon deals x targets 3 sonic damage…”, it now reads “Tachyon deals UP TO x targets 3 sonic damage…”
Visionary/Wrest the Mind: should now read “play this card next to a target OTHER THAN A HERO OR VILLAIN CHARACTER CARD…” then change the damage that Visionary and the target takes from 2 to 3.
Citizen Dawn/Citizen Tears: instead of “if Citizen Sweat is in play, each player discards 2 cards.” it now reads “if Citizen Sweat is in play, each player discards 1 MORE CARD.”
Not certain if it’s a typo or not but in the Rook City expansion the glossary has “Nemesis” between “Rook City” and “Round”, every other entry is in alphabetical order
Just wait till you see one of the villains in Infernal Relics! Mwahahahahahaha!
Good thing you got your mocking in while you still could …
… and how come you’re not coming to Indy?
Mock? Mock?! Well I never! I was just subtly hinting that I may have exciting knowledge that you don’t. With, perhaps, an implied “neener neener”, to round it out.
I still have no real job >_< So I’ve picked up a babysitting type gig this week to make some extra cash. You guys have fun and sell a million games though!
Yeah, uh, actually I can’t make it either. Things just didn’t work out. I’ll have to see about next time. Or eventually. Maybe during the summer.
Also, depending on whether you want just typos or Errata too, in Chris’ response to my questions, he mentioned that End of Days would need errata to prevent people from picking it as an early target and thus terminating it’s effect.
uhhhh, not exactly errata but on Imbued Fire Legacy has the wrong coloured chest piece, it’s all yellow and not yellow lantern/red circled
Maybe because he’s been imbued with fire?
In The Chairman’s deck, the card The Muscle says “At the end of the villain turn, search the villain trash for a card named Enforcer.” (singular)
But there are no cards named Enforcer. There are only cards named Enforcers. (plural)
I’m not sure if this is a typo, an errata, or written correctly and just odd. Oxygen Leak says:
“At the end of the environment turn, 1 player may discard 1 ongoing card to destroy this card.”
Now, discard means “from your hand”, but this is the only card I can remember that ever specifies what type of card a player has to discard. Thus, I suspect that this should really say “destroy 1 hero ongoing card” instead. That said, I could be totally wrong, and it means exactly what it says and is just unique in that it tells you to discard a specific type of card.
I’d actually love it if someone official chimed in on this one
You know, I always thought that one was strange, Broccoli. I obey it without blinking now, but clarification would be great.
Would “discard 1 hero ongoing card” be a more useful description than “discard 1 ongoing card”? The only kind of ongoing card you’re going to have in your hand to discard would be a hero ongoing card, so the additional adjective won’t actually be imparting any additional useful information.
I have asked this question (though in a different way) and it is supposed to be that you discard from hand one ongoing card not in play, but in your hand.
(in response to Spiff)
If you re-read my suggestion, the primary difference was destroy vs. discard. I added the “hero” portion because when destroying an ongoing card, you would need to specify hero, or else you could destroy villain cards. I admit that with discard, it is implied, but when I suggested a change to destroy, adding hero became necessary.
(in response to JayMann)
Fair enough. It’s just a weird card then
Ah, I understand what you intended now. Right now, it instructs us to discard a card, but you think it should instead instruct us to destroy a card in play, based on the fact that it tells us what kind of card to discard when no other card with a discard effect does that. I’m interested now to hear from the SotM guys what the original intent of the card was – discard or destroy.
Discard, as it says on the card. Sorry for any confusion.
Hey, isn’t Villainy spelt Villainy and not Villany as on the Scum and Villany card?
Or is this an American/British spelling thing?
Common misconception - the card title is actually talking about this place.
Or you just found another typo. Curses.
Where’s Scum, then?
Scum Lake, Ontario?
I have an opinion about streamlining the way the cards are written. I think having keywords is a great idea to avoid confusion. Such as ‘discard’, ‘destroy’, ‘reveal’, ‘play’, ‘if you do’ etc that are currently in the game.
But I think having more is better.
For example, use the keyword ‘When’ for trigger effects. Use keyword ‘different’ for targets. Use keyword ‘exactly’ if that is what the card wants to say.
I know card real estate is going to be a problem. But it is still better to have unambiguous wordings on the cards.
Just saw Tom Vasel Rook City video, this typo was so glaring in the video. Mr Fixer’s Jack Handle should read Equipment.
Here’s something to consider, though it’s not really a typo – the wording for damaging effects is a little awkward IMO. We currently use the format “this ability deals XYZ target 1 type of damage”, which is a more awkward way to say “this ability deals 1 type of damage to XYZ target”. I think reversing the order of the statement and using the “to” would improve readability.
Not a typo but given the current discussion on Savage Mana and the addition of more hero targets would rewording Savage mana be good?
“Whenever damage dealt by Haka destroys a non-hero target, you may put that card beneath this card”
Or is taking cards away from another hero’s decks intended?
I’m sure once Rook City is sold out that when they print more copies they’ll fix the typos, wouldn’t be an Enhanced Edition like the core set, just a 2nd edition or something. After all, if they’re gonna print another run of the game then they might as well fix the typos.
If Haka destroys one of Unity’s bots, then he can claim it via Savage Mana - I don’t really have an issue with that.
Cool. People who play Rampage are going to get a lot more hard stares around my table from now on!
What about destroying actual hero characters? Or The Operative? Or one of The Ennead for what it is worth?
I don’t think that character cards ever really count as being “destroyed”. Most cases like that involve them becoming “Incapacitated.” Hero character cards and the Operative flip over when they are reduced to 0 or fewer. They are not destroyed.
Though for The Chairman and Omnitron, since the game can continue without either of them being in play, they can be taken by Haka’s Savage Mana when they are defeated.
Why do you say that? Like Axe just said, they are never “destroyed”, they’re “incapacitated”. So why can they be put under Savage Mana?
Because Chairman and Omnitron doesn’t have an “incapacitated” side, hence they are destroy-able, hence Savage-Mana-able?
Of course you’re right. Heroes (and the Operative) have incapacitated sides. Not villain character cards.
I was looking through Fanatic’s deck just a while ago and found a couple of “artistic typos” if you could call them that.
First, is Fanatic left handed or right handed? Or ambidextrous? She attacks with Absolution in her left hand in Smite the Transgressor and Wrathful Retribution, while uses her right hand in Sanctifying Strike.
Second, in Smite the Transgressor, Apostate didn’t have a big scar on his right torso. In the image released on kickstarter, he had a big scar. Which is right? Or are they from 2 different timelines?
It’s probably because she hasn’t given him the scar yet, Mystery Comics #368, which is on Smite the Transgressor, is the first time Fanatic makes an appearance according to her bio on the website.
I see, that’s makes sense.
So the villain Apostate that will come in Infernal Relics will not be the first encounter between him and Fanatic.
Or, he is, and Smite the Transgressor occurs early in the fight.
[quote=““Trust Fund””]
Draw 4 cards, then discard 2 cards.
[/quote]
[quote=““Quick Insight””]
Draw 3 cards. Discard 2 cards.
[/quote]
[quote=““Horus Ra - Sunrise””]
Draw 3 cards. Discard 2 cards.
[/quote]
[quote=““Visionary - Enlighten””]
1 player draws 2 cards, then discards 1 card.
[/quote]
[quote=““Research Grant””]
Power: Draw 2 cards. Discard a card.
[/quote]
From the above examples, I observe 2 inconsistencies.
Side note, I hope I’m finding all these in time to make it before the cards go to the printing press.
The way I see it, the drawing-discarding should ALWAYS be 2 sentences… (Draw X cards. Discard X cards.)
With the exception of Visionary’s power, since it’s the only one that refers to any hero, not just the one playing the card.
Found potential new typo, but the font makes it a little hard to tell.
oNBOARD MODULE INSTALLATION ← the first “o” looks like small letters, or it simply looks smaller than the other "o"s in the title. Typo?
I think you’re right! Looking at the proofs for Enhanced Edition, this appears to have been fixed.
I found a playtesting change that wasn’t modified in the Rook City rulebook.
Apparently, Demon’s Kiss used to deal all non-villain characters 1 infernal AND 1 fire damage, because in the damage modification FAQ it says exactly that.
Of course, it has since been changed to just 1 infernal damage, but there is still a discrepancy between what the card says and what the rulebook SAYS the card says.
Cryo Chamber - All cold damage dealt to AZ is increased by 1. All fire damage dealt to AZ is decreased by 1. etc.
Focused Apertures - Increase cold damage dealt by AZ by 1.
Imbued Fire - All fire damage is increased by 1.
Solar Flare - Increase fire damage dealt by Ra by 2. etc.
Staff of Ra - Increase all damaged dealt by Ra by 1.
Gene-bound Shackles - Increase damage dealt by Tempest to the Villain character card by 2.
Inspiring Presence - etc. Increase damage dealt by Heroes by 1. etc.
Obsidian Field - Increase all damage dealt by 1.
Oxygen Leak - Reduce all fire damage by 3. etc.
Villainous Weaponry - Increase damage dealt to Hero targets by 1.
Rooftop Combat - Increase all damage dealt by 1. etc.
Phosphorescent Chamber - Increase damage dealt by 1. Increase HP recovery by 1. etc.
I was just going through the text that concerns damage modification. There are several inconsistencies.
I’m just casually reading the text so there could be more that I’ve missed. In general, I have 3 proposals.
I'm going through my Clarifications PDF, and I see that we said that Tachyon's "Sonic Vortex" would be errata-ed so that it would say that "Tachyon deals UP TO x targets 3 sonic damage, where x = the number of burst cards in your trash" (the "up to" being new), but when I look at the PDF that lists what was changed, I don't see that one there. Did they (a) decide against making this change, (b) make the change but miss it in the PDF, or (c) want to make the change but forgot to make it on the EE cards?
Ah, good catch! Yes, the "up to X targets" phrasing has been added to the Enhanced Edition cards, so no worries there. I need to go through and change it in the revision PDF.
Thanks!
Found some typos on Spite while playing.
PL62 6 Compound XI - Looks like a space between the 2 and the second 6. I believe there shouldn't be a space there.
PL602 Compound oMICRON - The first O in omicron should be caps but is small instead.
PL531 Compount Upsilon - First instance of Spite not in italics but should be.
Transhuman Serial Killer - Advance - First instance of Spite not in italics but should be.
Drug-Wracked Monstrosity - Destroy all villain cards in play other than drugs and Spite's villain character cards. How about the Safe House? But the Safe House is indestructible. To destroy or not to destroy?
oN THE PROWL - First O looks like small, second O looks like caps.
Lost Child - At the start of each *hero's turn*. Other cards such as Innocent Bystander says At the start of *a hero turn*, that %hero's player%.... Potential Sidekick says At the start of *each hero turn*, %that player%.... Not too sure if there's a distinction between these few. If not, then consistency is required.
Collateral Damage - Flavour text - Rook City Renegades #6. Not sure why the comic book title is in italics here but not on other cards' flavour text.
I know from using the same type of font that the Os in the header of the cards are smaller when they're uppercase and are larger when they're lowercase.
I checked this list and didn't see it noted, but in the Pike Industrial Complex card set, there is a card titled:
"Checmical Explosion"
which I believe should be
"Chemical Explosion"
This is as good a place to bring this up as any.
Remember how the art for Darken the Skies was low res? In my recent plays with The Matriarch, it is beginning to irk me more and more.
Reprinting is not viable because the card backs and color tone may be different from the rest of the deck.
So instead, will the designers upload a paste up errata card, much like the 1st->enhanced Ed errata, with the corrected hi res art so that we (read *I*) can print it out and slot in front of my sleeved cards?
I so love the Sentinels art.
Thanks.
Something like this?
Does that work for you?
Beautiful! Finally justice to Adam and The Matriarch.
Thanks!!!
Heck, I'll do you one better. It's one of my favorite arts from that set, in fact.
Glorious birdage.
I don't know if I knew there was a lady in that picture. I thought it was all just birds.
Hey, Christopher:
How close are you to needing to do a reprint of Rook City?
I would totally rebuy it for that awesome artwork alone!
I love the expression on The Matriarch. Ecstasy.
Can this be an add on in the Kickstarter? I'd replace every pixely DtS card in her deck with this beauty.
Just shut up and take my money!
The card backs will be different due to different print runs and you will be able to tell that Darken the Sky is coming just from the different coloured backs.
As long as the backs are /darker/ I will accept it on pun value alone.
I wish to make another request. I understand that for Absolute Zero's deck, 1 Coolant Blast was substituted with 1 Frost-Bound Drain in the Enhanced Edition.
Is it possible to upload the full card image of Frost-Bound Drain so that I can print it out and slot it in front of my 1st Ed Coolant Blast card?
Thanks in advance.
Something like this?
Taa-daa!
so awesome!
If we order a replacement card, does it come with this higher resolution image?
Unfortunately, no. The replacement cards are just cards removed from other copies of Rook City, and we are still solidly in the first print run of Rook City.
I found a typo tonight on one of the Argent Adept's cards - the quote at the bottom of Musaragni's Harp reads "It's strings can play as quietly as a mouse, or as loud as a lion!". The first word of that sentence shouldn't have an apostrophe - otherwise it's basically saying "It is strings can play..." ;).
Understood, thank you Christopher. Originally thought only some people got the lower resolution copy.
Well, damn! Slipped past us.
Sigh. Here's an actual quote from me in the playtesting forum in which we proof-read Argent Adept: " Wow. I am NOT proofreading these as well as I thought I was."
Lol. I'll let you know if I should happen to spot any more, but other than ones that have already been noted ("Checmical Explosion" and I think a repeated word in the text for Imbued Fire), I don't think I've ever spotted any others on cards :).
This isn't a typo, but does anyone else have something funny going on with the colors on the backs of Apostate's deck? Mine seem to differ greatly between cards. Some are a lighter gray with others very dark. It hasn't affected our gameplay yet, but I imagine in time we will be able to tell which cards have a lighter back and which have a darker one.
Hmm, yeah, I think you're right, but as I'm looking at them under my bedroom light rather than daylight it's hard to tell and it's making my eyes go all weird, lol. I don't think it makes much difference, though, since it's not as if only certain cards are dark/light. I mean, I looked at one "dark" card and one "light" one, and turned them over and it turned out they were both the same ("Fallen Angel" One-Shot). I think there's enough of a mix of cards that you can't tell what's gonna come up, even with this slight difference in card backs.
At first I was mistakenly looking through Ambuscade's deck, and I was thinking, "These people are crazy. There are _no_ differences."
Then I looked at Apostate's deck and it was clear that there are!
For example, pull out the two Apocalypse cards and the three Profane Summons cards. I bet that just be looking at the backs you can tell which ones are which.
Argent Adept has a card 'Akpunku's Drum' which (more or less) has the following text:
"Perform the accompany text of a Rhythm card and the perform text of a Melody card"
Nothing ostensibly wrong with this, other than that every other instrument lists the perform text first. Don't know why but this card always sticks out like a sore thumb because of that.
It is that way on purpose. Both because of the order of play makes for interesting interactions, and because it's a drum, which is primarily an accompanying rhythm instrument, but occasionally can be used to lay out a primary musical line, depending on the type of music.
Thanks for the clarification! So does this mean you have to play them in listed order? It is then rather than and? I've been reading the and as meaning that the order of activation doesn't matter.
Order written on cards is always done in the order written, no matter what conjunctions are used to combine them. Someone started the idea that the word "and" started simultainious actions, thus allowing the players to decide order, but, the only thing I've ever heard from the developers is that order occurs in the order on the cards. And, for precedent, Fanatic deals 1 target 1 melee and 1 radiant damage. It has always been stated that you first deal one target one melee damage, and then deal that same target one radiant damage. Never the other way.
While I know that the effects on the Adept's instruments must occur in order, one of my most frequent uses is that of the harp to play the Perform and then the Accompany of a Harmony card. The Perform that I activate is the one that lets you use another power (Inspiring Supertonic, I think). So I should then immediately interrupt that first instrument's actions to play another power, which itself might be to let myself play another power. So I normally just act out the second part of the harp's actions (usually just healing myself with Supertonic's Accompany section) in order to avoid confusing myself. I figure it's okay in those instances, since it doesn't affect the gameplay that I take that particular action before I'm supposed to. Or at least, it hasn't so far. I don't want to have to keep track of too many things - the Adept is complicated enough as it is! :D
Technically, yes, these actions should be put in a stack. And, for the most part, simply recovering a point of HP will likely never alter the outcome, except in the corner case that the targets regaining HP are nearly depleted, and some action you do could result in that target's destruction had you not restored HP.
But, really, if you did want an easy way to keep track of that stuff, you could always literally stack the cards as you use their powers, and when one instrument is done, take it off the stack to resolve the next instrument underneath. You could even have the instruments oriented one way or the other to determine whether the instrument is currently on it's first action or it's second action, and then stack them in another pile once they have been fully used.
Yeah, that idea has occurred, but basically I can't be arsed and I figure it's okay as long as acting out of order won't have any effect on the outcome of using those powers.
While resleeving my Omnitron cards (due to Mayday sleeves varying in length to a great degree, much to my disappointment), I noticed a similar predicament to the issue with Apostate's cardbacks that I mentioned earlier. It appears that some cards have distinguishably darker backs than others. It isn't as prominent as the backs of Apostate's cards, but I thought it should still be brought up.
I was putting all my lovely new cards into the main box last night and had a quick look at each one as I did so, just to give them a cursory glance to make sure they were all printed okay and stuff (having heard of there being the occasional issue with that in the past), and while there were no issues there, I did notice that on Miss Information's starting side (on the text card, not the picture card), she's described as a "Demure Ofice Worker"…oops. The picture card has it spelt correctly, though, as does the setup text.
Lock Down flavour text, Elligible -> Eligible
On Kismet's character card in the advanced rules (Charmed Scoundrel side), should it read "At the start of the villain turn, Kismet deals each hero target affected by a Jinx card 2 psychic damage"? Glass Jaw could end up on a Unity bot, for instance.
In La Capitan's deck, L'Épéiste has an extra space in the title (after the apostrophe).
Alternating Tiger Clawwords the destruction of other Styles differently.
Too much space between ‘L’ and ‘T’ in Multiverse in the logo .
Just wanted to throw this out there:
On Proletariat's bio, it reads "leaving him unharmed and more prepared to meet the threat then before"
Figured you guys might want to fix that.
I just use dice to track where I am in the resolution. Die 1 on the Instrument, die 2 on the card being performed, die 3 on the card being accompanied. Or, if the two songs are Inspiring Supertonic and Inventive Preparation, die 1 on the Lyra that's playing them, die 2 on Supertonic's perform, die 3 on Xu's Bell whose Power I'm using, die 4 on Preparation's Perform (assuming I have no other Rhythms), die 5 on Supertonic's Accompany, and die 6 on Preparation's Lyra Accompany which I finally get back to after the Bell is finished.
Come to think of it, doing this sort of thing may be exactly what I like about the Argent Adept. He's not otherwise my style of hero, but I seem to enjoy getting to chain all these different effects together, in a way that makes my brain hurt and my turn take a quarter-hour as I compute the whole sequence. (If we ever get a hacker hero, perhaps they could have a build somewhat similar to the Adept? In the sense that Ra and Haka and Tempest are all somewhat similar, that is, not to the point of them actually being the same.)
(On a side note, mentioning Telamon's Lyra is particularly funny this month or so, because I'm reading The Golden Compass. Lyra's daemon even has a fairly similar name, Pantalaimon, usually just "Pan", so you could view Talaimon as a sort of surname, in which case it's just a slight spelling difference.)
At least she's not an Orifice Worker. That would be hard to do demurely…
"Then" would imply that you don't get the second half without doing the first half (not explicitly state it, as "If you do", does, but create the appearance of a correlation between completing step 1 and proceeding to step 2). I think "and" was correct to use here.
For some VotM stuff: One nemesis is spelled differently on the title (Idolater) than the Flavor Text (Idolator)