Darklands: Second Edition - Official Errata v2.08

[Rob Lane]

Everyone,
This page will list all of the official errata for the Darklands: Second Edition rule book, version 2.08.

Each of these erratum will eventually be provided upon a PDF document that can be printed out, with each offending paragraph(s) having a separate entry so that they can be cut out and stuck in to the rule book.

Each quote below will replace a particular paragraph in the rule book.

Cheers
Rob

[Rob Lane]

The need to square the vulnerable but difficultly seen circle came about thanks to Bish and Matt...

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2·4·4·1·8
ETHEREAL

Blessed, Sorcerous and Soul Damage
Being unnatural creatures, all blessed damage, sorcerous damage and soul damage suffered by an ethereal warrior is also vicious damage.

[Rob Lane]

Some hedging of bets here...

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2·7·5·2·5
HEDGE

Impact Strikes
When performing any kind of Hold reaction or Hold and... reaction against a Direct Engagement that is also a swift Engagement, Hedge warriors cause impact strikes called hedge impact strikes with the hedge weapon upon enemy warriors within the hedge weapon's attack range.

[Rob Lane]

Moving through units didn't allow them to Reflex Attack thanks to them being confused immediately. Not anymore...

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3·8·5·2
MOVED THROUGH UNIT
A unit that is Moved Through is called a Moved Through unit until the Move Through is resolved. All Moved Through units - friend or enemy - become confused once the Moving Through unit has completed its Movement, as a result of warriors running pell-mell through their carefully-constructed battle-line, unless they have the ‘skirmisher’ ability.

[Rob Lane]

Too much Inspiring makes Jack a dull boy:

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INSPIRE ACTION

master rule · command action (1) · leader action · incite action

[Rob Lane]

Some questions from Andy has led to a change to Quelling mounted warriors...

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QUELL TEST

Quelling Mixed Units
Any unit with warriors of different profiles (such as a noble within a unit of vassals, or a Bound unit) will always perform QUELL TESTS using their own ATTRIBUTES, and never another member of the unit.

Quelling Mounted Units
Ardent mounted warriors use the attributes of the rider and ardent mount separately when performing QUELL TESTS, except that for fire, hellfire or petrification effects, the SKILL of the rider may be used if it is higher than the ardent mount's SKILL.

Beast mounted warriors use the SKILL of the rider to Quell any fire, hellfire or petrification effects, but for any other effects, the highest value attribute of either the rider or the beast mount is used.

Quelling Engine Units
In the case of shot engines or carriage engines pulled by beast draught animals, the crew use their SKILL to Quell any fire, hellfire or petrification continuous effects on the engine warrior, but for any other effects, the highest value attribute of either the crew, engine or beast draught animal is used.

Carriage engine warriors pulled by ardent draught animals use the attributes of the crew, engine and ardent draught animal separately when performing QUELL TESTS, except that for fire, hellfire or petrification effects, the SKILL of the crew may be used if it is higher than the ardent draught animal's SKILL (and must always be used for the engine).

and

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QUELL TEST MODIFIERS

Quelling Mounted Units
In the case of beast mounted warriors, only deduct the current mass of the riders from the QUELL ROLL result if the ATTRIBUTE tested is SKILL. Otherwise, deduct the current mass of the mounted warrior from the QUELL ROLL result.

If an ardent mounted warrior is performing a QUELL TEST, treat both rider and ardent mount separately; deduct the current mass of the rider from an ardent mount's QUELL ROLL result, but never the other way around.

...as well as engine warriors.

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QUELL TEST MODIFIERS

Quelling Engine Units
Engine crew only deduct the current mass of the crew from the QUELL ROLL result if the ATTRIBUTE tested is SKILL. Otherwise, deduct the current mass of the engine warrior from the QUELL ROLL result.

If an ardent draught animal is performing a QUELL TEST, treat both crew, engine and ardent mount separately; deduct the current mass of the crew from an ardent draught animal's and engine's QUELL ROLL result, but never the other way around.

Cheers
Rob

[Rob Lane]

Following on from that, let's give a slight advantage to beast mounted warriors and engines pulled by beast draught animals:

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2·7·3·1·2
EFFECT DAMAGE

Continuously Affected Mounted Warriors
Continuous effect tokens are distributed to the mounted warrior as a whole in the case of beast mounted warriors. A beast mounted warrior's QUELL TEST is taken by the rider.

Continuously Affected Carriage Engine Warriors
Continuous effect tokens are distributed to crew, carriage engines and ardent draught animals separately, depending on which suffered the effect hit; in the case of beast draught animals, the effect tokens are distributed to crew and draught animals as a whole, and the engine separately.

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EFFECT DAMAGE

After the example:

Mounted Warriors
The effect mass of beast mounted warriors is equal to the mass of the mounted warrior as a whole, but riders and their ardent mounts have separate effect masses.

Engine Warriors
The effect mass of shot engines is equal to the mass of the engine warrior as a whole. The effect mass of carriage engines pulled by beast draught animals is equal to the mass of the crew and the beast draught animals, with the engine treated separately. Similarly, for carriage engines pulled by ardent draught animals, the crew, engine and ardent draught animals have separate effect masses.

Cheers
Rob

[Rob Lane]

Modifier changes for Attacking, Shooting and Invoking:

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6·20·5·2·4
APPLY PARRY MODIFIERS

-2 - Attacked warrior is not a Shieldwall warrior and is using both a combat weapon and an armour element with the rule ‘parry’, such as a sword and shield, regardless of the enemy warrior's mass. This modifier replaces both the weapon and armour element's parry modifier

[Rob Lane]

An interesting situation on the battlefield led to this...

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7·30·2
SHOOT REACT

A Shoot reaction is almost exactly the same as a Shoot action and so Shoot reacting units perform an embedded Shoot action, called a Shoot React action, against the Approaching Target unit as soon as it has completed its Movement.

Cheers
Rob

[Rob Lane]

A change to Inspire and Daunt to ensure they aren't too powerful during / before the battle respectively...

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INSPIRED UNIT

One friendly unit whose leader is within a certain range of the Inspirer - the inspire range - can be a potential Inspired unit...

third paragraph:

As many friendly units within inspire range as the Inspiring unit's player wishes can be a potential Inspired unit if the Inspire action is also an Incite action – i.e., it is performed before the battle begins – but only one friendly unit can be an Inspired unit otherwise.

Some additional modifiers for DREAD TESTS...

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DREAD TEST MODIFIERS

-20 - if the Daunted unit contains a host herald
-10 - if the Daunted unit contains a herald

Cheers
Rob

[Rob Lane]

Musings on the amount of shoot dice to roll for Volley Shooting has led to this:

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6·32·2
VOLLEY SHOOT

Volley Shoot Dice
The amount of fated shot dice and shot dice for each volley shot weapon used in the Volley Shoot action is tripled.

EXAMPLE
A unit of ten bow-drunes is Volley Shooting an enemy unit, resulting in two fated shot dice and three shot dice. The bow-drune's Target must then attempt to evade nine shot dice, having suffered six damage from the fated shot dice.

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VOLLEY SHOOT (N)

It can be the case that a Volley Shooting unit has a number next to the rule on its warrior profile. This indicates the Volley Shooting unit's shot dice multiplier.

EXAMPLE
Albainn elbharu have the rule ‘volley shoot (2)’ on their slow-shooting crossbows. This means the elbharu's shot dice are doubled rather than tripled when Volley Shooting.

Cheers
Rob