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Ugh, 303 and 304 must have stuck together when we were sleeving. One side said 303, the other was terrain. Checked it many times, but had to take it out of the sleeve to discover the problem. Thanks!

That's fine, and I don't really care. It hasn't spoiled my enjoyment of the game. I report something, if they accept it fine, if they never fix it, that's their prerogative too. I think there is a very high chance of a reprint/expansion-reprint like before, so I was simply passing it along for whatever edits they might do with the reprint.

The interesting linguistic aspect is if the translator had gone with the literal "good day" it would have been perfectly accurate, and while my French is rusty, I believe bonjour and bon jour have the same meaning with or without the space, as bon = good and jour = day, while the same is not true in English. Well as an adverb means "good", but as an adjective, it has a different meaning and different usage, and we just use "good" as an adjective. Which is why I can agree English as a language kinda sucks--too many quirks like that. For example, "I did a good job" and "I did well" highlight this oddity.

If I did not understand the renaming of some things, I would have posted about toards and hournds and whatever too. I got that. If "welcome" was being substituted by another language, then it should be more obvious, like "Irasshaimase to my palace." Or like how BSG substituting clearly different words for curse words. But if "well come" is supposed to be Kellian for "welcome" then whenever I see the words "well" and "come" on other cards do I now question whether they mean the correct English or the in-world Kellian meanings? Using another perfectly intelligible phrase that means something entirely different in that language like "Oh I'm surprised, now get over here!" is just poorly thought out. Put in "Velkomin" instead if that's what you are trying to do.

It's clearly a typo that got by the language translation review.

I was wondering this myself. I'm thinking of just printing on regular paper and slip into the sleeve with the original card.

On the destiny track of the community leaflet, there is a card 303 on the far right. This card happens to be a terrain card. I can't imagine this is supposed to be the card referenced.

Firebird, I'm not sure why you are saying that to me. 1) I looked at the FAQs 2) I looked at the errata (I have a copy printed too with my game for reference). Neither issue was there. The "Well come" is not mentioned that I can find. and I missed the other topic. (shrug)

We passed on the action because we didn't have a projectile card in inventory. I think "assume" might have been a better word than "consider"

It's still confusing, and I assume there will be a future printing of the game just like 7th Continent, so knowing this is useful.

Sarah, thank you for confirming.

Following up for those who want to argue about proper English:
"Well come to my palace" literally is an imperative to the person being spoke to telling them to come to their palace, but you are already there. Well is an introductory word that a comma should separate, therefore if it is intended to be written that way it would be written as "Well, come..."

On the other hand, "welcome" is simply a greeting, and with the context of the card, it is clear this is what would have been meant, but mispelled as "well come"

A0711 (#222) card has a minor typo from translation, likely. The lady says "Well come"... Proper English would be "Welcome"... Obviously a very minor issue, but should be logged and addressed in a future printing .

The next is a really a nonsensical instruction on card A0774 (#260):

I gather this is saying "if the active player has a purse card with ~that keyword~ and selects it during gear up, you can take the following action:" There's definitely a much better way to word the instructions on that card.

Maybe say "during the following action, you must select a purse card with the ~KEYWORD~ keyword." Just don't use the word "consider" in that context. It's poor English, confusing, and sounds like an email from an African prince wanting to expatriate some money .

Thanks for the explanation. So is it the second edition that had all the printing screw ups? I believe I can say I must have a true first edition base game, because it is missing a couple of those dividers and I can identify all the pre "upgrade pack" cards in the box having the old versions, not the updated ones.

As far as I can tell the cards are all the same sizes and there's nothing grossly mismatching with the color of the backs. (Yes there's some slight variability, but nothing that makes any one card stand out as "YES, I KNOW WHICH ONE THAT IS!") So it doesn't sound like the first edition had as many manufacturing issues as the second edition.

As an aside, I did find the upgrade pack in the WGUMCD box. I guess I had managed to overlook it previously. If anyone else is unsure what this looks like, it's a very small collection of cards in shrinkwrap, with a few dividers, and one of those "white slips" like all the expansions have that identifies it as what it is, all in a single ziplock baggie.

I contacted Mayday about their sleeves being out of stock. They say they expect to get more in the next couple of weeks.

I previously bought a copy of the game second hand. Since I haven't followed the game until more recently, I'm having a little trouble identifying the version (first or second) edition, and I have verified that it is missing the "updated" cards, like A0374, which is 048, and is supposed to have thumbs up on the front. I, maybe incorrectly, assumed this would be updated automatically by SP, so I hadn't checked previously.

So my two questions are how to identify the version of the game and more importantly, how to get the newer versions of these cards? I see "replacement cards for second edition" on Ebay, but I'm not sure that is what I am needing, if I have a first edition base box. I've opened a ticket with after sales, but thought I would ask here to see if anyone has any guidance.

Why the three card shoes in the box? All the new cards fit basically in one. I almost thought I was missing a bunch of cards when I opened it.

Let's try an official source, not your urban dictionary. http://www.m-w.com.

3: to buy and sell so as to make small quick profits
scalp stocks
scalp grain
especially : to resell at greatly increased prices
scalp theater tickets
intransitive verb

1 : to take scalps
2 : to profit by slight market fluctuations

There's nothing positive or negative implied here....unless you suggest that "profit" is a nasty term, but then I'd just call you a communist and be done with the conversation .

Yup, lol. That's some delicious irony there.


That was never the argument, but it doesn't surprise me you would either misread or fabricate some softball point that was easy to discount.


Actually that is exactly what they are. Just because you choose a derogatory word doesn't make the activity any different. One person calls a temporary worker a "scab", but that doesn't make the action immoral. Just some like to pretend it is because they don't like it. You are making a circular argument, and don't even recognize it. It goes something like this. Scalpers are immoral, because the definition of scalping is universally negative. Therefore the action that scalpers execute is immoral. Why is it immoral? Because it's scalping, gosh darn it. Well who is a scalper then? Whoever I say it is!! In the land of not-make-believe the rest of us have to apply definitions impartially and without prejudice.

And even when it is pointed out that the same action isn't condemned in other circles, you fall back to your personal opinions and personal definitions.

So what you are saying... is that scalpers who profit by making small quick profits, are different from resellers who make small quick profits by pledging a KS and reselling it at a profit? M-kay. Makes perfect sense, lol. And of course dare I point out that no "reseller" in the history of, lets say, EVER, set out to NOT make a profit from reselling, lol. They all want to make some profit. One can only suppose that your definition is simply demonizing those who are a bit *better* than others at spotting these small quick profits to be made.


The problem here is that your distinctions are entirely arbitrary. And you justify by simply using definition demagoguery. Your argument is no different than someone saying that because the "n" word is negative, it is justified in it's use against those who it applies to. Why? Because it's negative and is used to refer to a group of people. However, more enlightened people can see that this is a fallacious argument, just like yours is. I've already destroyed your argument that scalpers somehow manipulate market conditions, like concert ticket prices. So without that leg, you are left with nothing to stand on, other than to claim scalpers are bad because of mumble, mumble, mumble, and they are different from "resellers" because of mumble, mumble, mumble.


Um, now you are just downright lying about what I said in order to declare victory. That's actually what YOU said and I was responding against it, that the scalpers are NOT the ticket takers, as you had said that they control whether people get to see a performer or not, unless you paid them to get in. You can't twist my words and not get caught by me, and no one else is reading this, so why are you trying to do so? Hm.

Ticketmaster is the ticket broker for virtually all concerts and events. Just like manufacturers don't want to operate distribution and retail stores (generally speaking), in the event space, a ticket broker handles the ticketing for an event. When Adele wants to do a concert, she doesn't go build arenas. The arenas she contracts with don't want to go build a ticket website or operate phone banks. Brokers generally handle all this. I don't even recall a time "before" Ticketmaster. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "forcing the hosts of events to sell them their tickets" but you can't attend any major sports/concert/fine arts event without the initial ticket going through Ticketmaster. It seems they have an exclusive contract for all major arenas and venues. Even if you go down to a box office you can't buy a ticket without paying a bunch of Ticketmaster fees. The point I was making is that they hold a virtual monopoly on all major event ticketing, far more than any group of scalpers you could point a finger at. They get their cut regardless, both coming and going. Like any other for-profit business, they are not operating solely for the benevolence of consumers, which is why I don't see the distinctions you are drawing.

Slydev1l, it seems like there are two options. Watch Ebay, or watch this site for when the store opens. The problem with Ebay is that it's mostly the base sets that go on sale, and very rarely an entire collection. The expansions, when listed by themselves, seem to be listed at exorbitant prices, like currently there is a playmat listed for $199, and each of the three original expansions are listed for $175. Definitely not worth that price if you ask me.

As for scalping, Unisus, you had correctly identified "scalpers" as "middlemen" in a previous post, although you categorized them as an unwanted middleman. You seem to put scalpers in a separate category and the same category at the same time, which makes your argument particularly weak. Also extreme examples, tend to weaken an argument, not strengthen, because there ends up being less common than there is common between the situations. On one hand you say what sets them apart is that the buyer is being forced to go through them. And when I point out, anything you buy in retail, you are likewise being forced to buy at a markup from a retailer, you object that it's different. You have the same choices with scalpers. You also try to strengthen your point by making it sound like the scalpers control the venue, like they are the ticket takers or something. You know, if I try to force my way into the Apple store to grab an iPad, they won't open the door to let me back out without paying either. Gasp! Those dirty b@stards!!! Actually wanting to get paid for the product before giving it to me. The only difference is your distaste for scalpers, not the process, or the situation, which I still don't understand.

Historically, scalpers bought tickets for an event months in advance, held the tickets until the day of, then stood on a corner selling them to late comers who wanted to attend but never bought one in advance. These days, the situation is a bit different. In the past, fans who couldn't attend generally got stuck holding a ticket they couldn't use, or giving it to a friend. Now middle markets exist for fans to sell tickets they can't use, but it makes it easier for scalpers to also sell theirs well in advance of the event. It also creates a fair open market where demand and supply meet in the middle. Low demand shows sell for less, high demand shows sell for more. Fans and scalpers all benefit alike. It becomes hard to demonize scalpers because you really can't tell the difference, and even if you could, both types of resellers are both making the same profit or loss on the exchange.

Other than that, the other problem with your argument is that it is based on a number of provably false assumptions. The main one is that scalpers artificially create scarcity. And the second, that scalpers operate is if they were some monolithic, monopolizing entity. If that were the case, then why aren't all events sold out? After all, if all that "scalpers" have to do is go buy up all the tickets, create false supply scarcity, resell at massive profit, then this is a repeatable process that should just net huge cash flow each time, rinse and repeat, right? So why don't they do that? For grins, I just picked a big name event off Ticketmaster's homepage: Ariana Grande. I can buy original tickets for my local city, even on the floor. To be fair, there's a lot of resale tickets too. But the point is, scalpers have not bought out the venue. Why not? Because you are wrong in your assumption. The real way scalpers work is they first FIND the high demand events, like Elton John, THEN they buy as many tickets as they can (and they ARE limited in how many can be bought), and then resell them. Meanwhile, other fans are also buying up tickets too, in much larger numbers than scalpers. The error you are making is that the supply and demand are ALREADY out of skew. Scalpers do not have the ability to create this situation. They simply react to an existing situation, trying to make some money off the exchange. In the days before scalpers, events still sold out, and people who wanted to go still could not go. Yes, scalpers make money on some of these (they also lose money if they guess wrong, which you also fail to understand), but they don't create the disconnect between supply and demand as you assert. If they did, then shows like Ariana Grande would already be sold out.

So given the fact that it's only the select events that get sold out like this, how much do scalpers really impact things? It's hard to say. Those events would sell out quickly regardless, without help from scalpers. Scalpers do make tickets available to those who otherwise couldn't be bothered to get in "line" when tickets went on sale. My wife has managed to buy tickets to high demand events many times. Other than the frustration of a slow website, no problem. If she had been too busy, she could have let someone else do the work for her and pay the markup at a later time. It's pretty simple. If you don't want to pay for the scalper's "service", then don't. Do what all the other fans do and get online early to get your tickets. But your notion that there is some entity named "scalper" who MAKES you buy from him is just garbage.

On the flip side, I've bought from scalpers at times where they were taking a loss. Which brings me to the third point you seem to make, that scalpers are not providing a service anyone wants. This one is so obviously wrong, it almost doesn't even deserve to be corrected. First, it's more of an opinion to begin with, so arguing it as an objective fact is nothing more than a projection of your opinion onto others. To disprove such a "fact" is to argue popular opinion, which I'm not inclined to do, as it is the worst form of debate, where everyone makes their own appeal to demagoguery, claiming it to be fact. That said, if your claim was true, and all people agreed with you, scalpers would cease to exist. They never would have arisen in the first place. Maybe you don't like the service they provide, but quite obviously others do. If they didn't, eradicating the entire group of them could be done overnight, virtually at the snap of a finger. Don't buy from them...ever. They would go away overnight. But obviously many do disagree with you. Many like being able to walk up to an event and buy a ticket on the spot. Many like being able to trade up to better seats. You can't argue based on your personal opinion, because if you could, I could argue the sky is green, even if the rest of the world disagrees. To you, they don't provide a useful service. To others, they certainly do. That's really about all there is to say. I don't expect you will change your mind because your argument is based on your preferences and misconceptions. not objective reality, but whatever. I suppose I'm the foolish one for trying to convince you, so I expect I will stop trying at this point, as this is the second go round of pointing out the same flaws in your argument, yet you continue to try to use them.

That's a terrible analogy--equating your first world problems of buying life's luxuries, like going to see an Adele concert, to third world problems of life and death at the hands of warlords. What it really comes down to is you don't like paying more than you want to and you are stamping your foot like a toddler who didn't get their way. It seems that you don't understand that this is a fundamental issue of supply and demand, and that you don't have a right to expect that when demand is much higher than supply, you don't get to control the price you pay. You are part of the horde driving up demand so how do you get to complain? You are part of the problem! There might be other countries you can live in that rigorously control both supply and demand, but I can promise you, none of them are worth living in . Scalpers wouldn't exist if people weren't willing to pay more to get those last tickets to a concert. Scalpers also wouldn't exist if artists were forced to perform as many times in a city as there were fans who wanted to attend. Again, if you can't afford to pay for the service they are providing, you certainly could have gotten online when the tickets went on sale in the first place. The only reason events sell out in minutes is fan demand for that event is huge. Scalpers are only getting a small piece of it, as there's many more fans who are buying them at the same time. You make it sound as if Ticketmaster sells all the tickets just to scalpers. Scalpers are actually doing the vey thing you say is ok, which is keeping stuff available for a later upmarked price.

I find it interesting that you have a problem with scalpers, but you don't even mention Ticketmaster, who makes a ton more on this than scalpers do. They make the initial "convenience" fees, then they let the scalper resell the ticket on their very own site, charge the scalper another 15%, and the second buyer another 10% on top of all that. When buying a first-hand ticket, I certainly don't get to choose Ticketmaster as the broker, and I certainly don't find their fees "convenient". There's very little value provided, and I could do without their "service" as well. But they are a middleman that is also forced on us. So what are you going to do about it? Don't go if you don't like it. No one is making you buy a ticket to go to an event.

When I go to an electronics store, there's a salesperson who makes a commission on any item I buy. That person didn't provide any value to me, and most of the time I already knew what I would be buying, and they just tagged their name on the sale. Why do I have to pay their commission on my purchase? I could complain all day about people who I indirectly pay for things that I just don't like paying for, that were not helpful or did not add value. It's just part of life.

The fact is, you don't get to choose middle men. Unless you are far more important than I am, I certainly don't get to demand which transport company is used to get a product I'm buying to the store I'm buying it from. There are MANY middle men forcing their way in to get involved in EVERY purchase you make. I'm not sure what makes you think scalpers are any worse than the others, or the unionized labor that is often part of that middleman workforce. Every middleman involved adds their markup, plus profit. Just making this post transits hundreds of devices that were bought by ISPs (and hosting companies) who procured through many middlemen from the equipment manufacturers, none of which I personally chose to do business with. Scalpers are certainly no more immoral than Starbucks who takes a 5 cent commodity and turns it into a $2.50 mediocre drink, times a million per day. Why don't those bean growers get a bigger cut??? Dang it, it's downright immoral!!!!!

So where you are from, you are first forced to attend a concert you don't want to see, and then pay for the ticket later? Strange customs...

And even in the case of scalping concert tickets, those people waited in line, called phone numbers endlessly, or sat at the computer in virtual line to get the tickets they resell later, so that those who couldn't be bothered to do the same, get to pay a markup for someone else doing the work for them. People may not like paying more for this "service" but nevertheless, scalpers are doing what "you" couldn't or wouldn't do, which is fight to get tickets when they first went on sale. It's not their fault "you" didn't. They are nothing more than middle men. Not a glorious profession, but middle men exist in almost every industry and are necessary. Certainly not immoral.

That's a bit strong. The scalpers would argue they helped fund the project when otherwise it might have struggled. Venture capitalist firms could be argued to be nothing more than greedy capitalist pigs, but then again, most of the companies they fund wouldn't exist without them, and some turn out to be massive drains on the venture capitalists (not all companies they fund are viable).

While I would much prefer to pay a higher fee to Serious Poulp for the game and expansions rather than a scalper, sadly, I missed the last window, so that is not an option. I had not even heard of this game at that time. I recognize that despite limited advertising, limited time window, and limited production, the scalpers did help SP accomplish what they set out to do with these limitations. Without the scalpers, it would have taken longer, required more word of mouth/advertising, and more money and greater risk. You could say they are a necessary evil if you still prefer the term evil. In a perfect world, SP would simply be able to fulfill orders on demand and not need KS or need backers. But this is not a perfect world.

The fact that SP has long stated it won't be reprinted creates an environment for scalpers to thrive in. Otherwise, if there were uncertainty about future reprints, scalpers would be taking on uncertainty themselves by investing in something that might turn out to be commoditized. So in a way, SP deserves some blame for the fact that Ebay is starting to fill up with shrink wrapped base sets the last few days as we enter the holiday season.

Do you have an estimate on when the shop will be open? Are we talking weeks or months?