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"The Specialist must be unencumbered to use any of the class abilities that involve movement, and must have Specialist Tools (see Equipment section) to use Search for finding traps or to use Tinker for opening locks or other such activities"

"All characters have a base 1 in 6 chance to use the Climb skill, which allows a character to climb walls and other sheer surfaces without obvious hand-holds. Characters (except Specialists) must be unencumbered to make this attempt."

These two sections seem to contradict each other. Am I just reading it wrong?

"They do have a natural connection with the Earth itself and a cultural understanding of construction and due to this has a greater initial Architecture score than other
characters"

Has should be Have

Summon

The new version does not give the exact formula by which you determine the maximum level of entity the caster can summon. The new version indicates that the information will be found further in the entry but it is not there. Thaumaturgic Circles and Sacrifices are shown to be components of the formula for determining Domination Rolls only, not max entity HD.

Indiegogo Edition:

Step One
The caster must decide how powerful a creature—
expressed in terms of Hit Dice—he will attempt to
summon. This cannot be more than two times the
caster's level, but the caster's effective level for this
purpose can be modified by Thaumaturgic Circles
and Sacrifices—see below.

Grindhouse Edition:

Creatures with more Hit Dice than two times the caster level (plus Thaumaturgic Circle and Sacrifice modifiers -see below) will not answer the summons.

Combination

Step One
The caster must decide how powerful a creature - expressed in terms of Hit Dice - he will attempt to summon. Creatures with more Hit Dice than two times the caster level (plus Thaumaturgic Circle and Sacrifice modifiers - see below) will not answer the summons.

The above could be read a couple ways. It might be best just to list the specific formula as a formula.

Is it HD = 2 (Caster Level) + (Circle Mod + Sacrifice Mod)
or HD = 2(Caster Level + Circle Mod + Sacrifice Mod)?

Summon

"Roll the indicated die type ... This is the Base Number. Roll that die again. If the new roll is less than the Base Number, then roll an appendage on the following table. Roll again and keep adding appendages until a new roll greater than, or equal to, the previous roll is made."

By previous roll you mean the Base Number? If that's the case please use that term. This is specifically one of the areas where I found the Summon description to be confusing in the original version. The text uses non specific or vague terminology and overall the new text of the spell is better this could be clearer.

"Roll the indicated die type ... This is the Base Number. Roll that die again. If the new roll is less than the Base Number, then roll an appendage on the following table. Continue rolling and adding appendages until a new roll greater than, or equal to, the Base Number is made."

I'm glad to see a rule for when the Domination Rolls tie, but I don't care for what you've chosen. The clear intent of the new rule is to increase the odds of a domination win for the summoned entity on ties. A tie is really a loss now, most of the time. In cases where the casters level and entity's HD + # of powers are equal: 2/5's of the d20 rolls are an uncontested entity win and nearly 3/5's of the d20 rolls offer a chance of entity success.

Summon is the most dangerous spell in LOTFP, the only way to near-ensure success is to make massive financial and/or sanguine preparations prior to casting. Perhaps this tie rule merely emphasizes that but I'd rather not see all the player's preparatory effort thrown away by a single unlucky roll. 

On a tie, I'd rather see each side continue to make domination rolls, retaining all bonuses, until a victor is determined. The caster and entity could be barred from taking other actions until the contest was decided, one domination roll per round. If the caster takes any actions to break his concentration or either take damage then the entity is free to rampage for dx rounds. This seems fair to me and narratively interesting.

"All characters begin their adventuring careers with
money and equipment with which to start their
adventuring career."

I'm not going to critique every awkward sentence, but this one is terrible and easily fixed.

"All characters start with money and equipment with which to begin their adventuring careers."

"New characters, since their equipment is considered to
be gathered during their travels prior to the start of
play, the players can use the less expensive prices
when buying equipment."

"Since their equipment is considered to have been gathered during their travels prior to the start of play, new characters may use the less expensive prices when buying equipment."

This isn't an error, but it would be nice if the page numbers of the spells were listed on the Mage & Cleric Spell List Pages.

Is "Strange Waters II" the only version of the Strange Waters spell in the Rule book?

I only have GrindhouseRulesMagicFree.pdf at the moment.

Rolled up this result on the site.

Blood Demon
You rolled a 27 vs 14 when trying to Save vs. Magic. You summoned a Blood demon with the following appendages: Slimy Spine.

It looks like you are adding the Sacrifice and Circle bonuses to the Magic Save. That's not what the rules call for. It's just a straight Magic Save with no Bonuses to determine the Die you Roll to Determine the Basic Form.

Very nice, funkaoshi.

You can summon a 0 HD monster, which just gets base stats. The lowest the program seems to allow is a 1HD monster

Also on the popup for the Bonuses you spell Sacrificing "scarificing"

What happens if the Domination rolls tie? I couldn't find this in the book.

Perhaps the creature and Magic User are locked in a domination struggle for X rounds where neither can take any action other
than continue the domination attempts. After X rounds the summoned creature returns to it's place of origin?