On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 15:33:44 +0000 (UTC), tmr0195@comcast.net wrote:

>First, thank you for publishing Free Lance Traveller a very good product with
>lots of good things for me to use or a more frequent occurrence is to be on
>the receiving end.

Thank _you_. Feedback from the readers is the only "pay" I get for doing
this. It's nice to hear comments that suggets that there's a possibility
that I just might have accidentally done something that could be
interpreted as 'right'. :)
 

>Under "What Is Dream Walking?"
> 
>1. The second sentence does not make sense to as written:
> 
>"Lucid dreaming involves the awareness of the dreamer that
>s/he is dreaming, and can lead to control over the dream, with
>training and practice."
> 
>Hopefully my edit of the sentence below is what the sentence was
>met to indicate:
> 
>"Lucid dreaming involves the awareness of the dreamer that
>s/he is dreaming, and can learn to have  control over the dream, with
>training and a lot of  practice."

I admit that my original sentence leaves something to be desired; it
clearly didn't produce the clarity that I might wish. The problem with
your suggested revision is that you've added confusion of antecedents to
the inclarity (is that a word? It is now!) that I created. The subject
of my sentence is 'lucid dreaming', and the sentence could be broken up
as

   Lucid dreaming involves the awareness of the dreamer that s/he is
   dreaming.

   Lucid dreaming can lead to control over the dream, with training and
   practice.

Your version breaks up as

   Lucid dreaming involves awareness of the dreamer that s/he is
   dreaming.

   S/he [the dreamer] can learn to have control over the dream, with
   training and lots of practice.

Notice how the subject changes from the first sentence to the second. In
a compound sentence (which is what the original is), you can't change
the subject between clauses; you must stick with a single subject.
 
>2. Maximum range:
> 
>As indicated earlier I am a bit light on game mechanics and to make
>matters worse I don't have access to my Traveller books so my comment
>of the range may be out to lunch.
> 
>My vague memory on Psionics is that the range for the various where
>a lot shorter than 15,000 km.

I didn't actually check range rules, but I thought I remembered seeing a
list of ranges that ...ummm, ranged... from personal/contact to
interstellar. My intents is to restrict dreamwalking to _at_most_
planetary range - that is, the dreamwalker and the dreamer pretty much
have to be on the same world (though certain close orbits would also be
more-or-less acceptable). If the max range for psionics, and
specifically for telepathy, are lower, that limit should govern. I'll
put that into the next draft.
 
>Under "What Can Dream Walkers Do?"
> 
>In the section of "What Is Dream Walking?" four types are identified the
>first sentence of "What Can Dream Walkers Do?"
> 
>"There are several types of dreamwalkers, divided by their capability to
>perceive or interact with dreams."
> 
>I expected the "several types" to expand the four core types which I
>do not feel occurred, of course I may have missed them.

No, the four types are all there are. When I started writing it, I only
had two types - essentially, what became the Observer and the Bender. As
I was scribbling, that expanded to three, and then four. Since I had to
go back and change 'two' to 'three', and then came up with the fourth, I
decided to just say 'several' to keep my south end while facing north
covered against any further refinement.
 
>Under Task Summary:
> 
>The first paragraph provides guidance for Observers, Visitors, and
>Weavers but does not mention Benders.

The first task summary, Initiating a dream walk, applies to _all_
dreamwalkers. However, none of the other tasks apply to Observers or
Visitors (hence the sentence about 'This is the _only_ task that applies
to...), the +2 for sleeping also applies to _all_ dreamwalkers, but the
-3 DM only applies to Weavers. I'll reorganize that paragraph; it's not
well-written.

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