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Do you really not see how inconsistent and confusing this is?  Sorry to have to be so frank, but telling someone something means one thing on one part of the character sheet, and the same thing means the opposite on another part, is just stupid.  And despite what Raggi says, I do not believe page 166 addresses this issue at all.  And no, it is not a "big issue", I am only merely giving feedback for whenever a new character sheet comes out, if ever.  And if Raggi doesn't think it's worth changing and likes it just the way it is, that's okay too.  Really, since Surprise is rolled by the DM anyway, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference whether Surprise is even on the character sheet.

Except that every non-Specialist player also has to fill in one dot on their skills as well, so why should filling out a Surprise check be any different?

Again, this is an entirely minor issue, and this is just minor feedback.  I have no problem with games that have multiple systems; I do not think wanting to roll low at some points and high at others to be inconsistent.  I do want some kind of consistency within those sub-systems though, especially when it comes to presentation on the character sheet.  Really, this is all about presentation, and as presented it seems rather contradictory.  And if Raggi doesn't think it's worth changing and likes it just the way it is, that's fine too.  Really, since the DM is the one who rolls Surprise, it probably wouldn't even make a difference whether or not Surprise was even on the character sheet.

You mean where it says "Elves are only surprised 1 in 6 (and so should fill in one pip)"?  Not exactly clear, but I am primarily going by page 56 where it says "most normal characters are surprised on a roll of 1-2."  Oh!  Or are you saying that the meaning of the blank and clear pips are swapped between skills and surprise chance, and the clear pips on the Surprise chance actually mean "1-2" and not "5-6"?

Even if that's true, it's still confusing and a rather pointless distinction; why not just replace it with a clear d6 like with skills?

Except the score shown on the character sheet is not.  To be surprised, a character (by default) has a chance of 2 out of 6, or 1 out of 6 if you're an Elf.  According to the character sheet, it's 4 out of 6, and that is the flaw I am pointing out.

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Also, it seems to me that the Surprise section on the character sheet is incorrect: it lists the Surprise chance as 4 out of 6, whereas it should be 2 out of 6.  Really, since Elves can have a 1 out of 6, I think the Surprise chance should just be a blank die to fill in.

Well it perhaps wouldn't be too far of a stretch of the imagination for a set of armor that has the spell Protection from Normal Weapons (or however it's called) on permanently -- and from this we can easily extrapolate weapons with something like "Piercing on Normal Armor", though for some reason I can only imagine it on edged weapons.

This presence would result in something akin to the following:

Normal Weapon vs. Magical Armor (w/ "Protection") = impossible (maybe allow on nat 20?)
Magical Weapon (if it has nothing else but "Piercing") vs. Normal Armor = as if no armor (uAC 12, maybe 13 with a shield?)
Magical Weapon vs. Magical Armor = normal

This particularly reminds me of Elric of Melnibone, and how his sword would cut through his foes as if they were butter, but when he faced that one guy with the magical armor he was stopped cold in his tracts.  But I would still suggest such weapons and armor being exceedingly rare, and I'm unsure if I'd want such a magical item model in every game that I ran (would cause quite a breach in the haves and have-nots, but enforced rarity can make something of a difference there).

Hm, you're probably right, maybe I'll change it to d6-1.

Also note: the armor falls off the instant it hits 0 hp, even in the midst  of combat (lose AC), and there are no rules for *when* the armor decides to heal itself ... or even exactly *who* it heals from (they just have to be wearing it at the time).

That is one idea I had:  say something is magical, but give no real mechanical benefit.  Or just have particularly ornate weapons and armor without any magic to them.  Another idea I had was to expand the "bonus vs. an unadjusted AC of X or higher", maybe to something like "+4 bonus vs. a uAC of 20-22" as the range 20-22 is the "realm of AC granted to beings clad in armor forged in the pits of hell" or some-such.

Now the question is,where can I get full-size copies of these pics?

Eh, I'm not sure if I want to go with the "foul, stinking" and super-rapists.  I was thinking about just making them big and dumb, only violent as they are prone to solve most problems by hitting it.  But out of curiosity, assuming they are even able to survive the rape, how would a human female even survive the pregnancy long enough to bring it to term?