The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[overgeeked]

I remember when, in my White Wolf days, I worked out that what one contingent wanted from their errata was for there never to have been a problem. They don’t want info they could print out and tuck into a book. They didn’t want a new copy of the book that didn’t have the error. They wanted their existing copy to have always been fixed. And, y’know, that’s not possible. So they’d go away mad and badmouth the company for years on end because they couldn’t get the simple fix of never having had a problem.

For some people the only options are it’s perfect or it sucks. Considering nothing is ever perfect, that’s got to be a seriously miserable way to live.

 

[CleverNickName]

So they’d go away mad and badmouth the company for years on end because they couldn’t get the simple fix of never having had a problem.

Hot Take: this is the root of all present-day complaints about the OGL and/or Hasbro.

 

[overgeeked]

Hot Take: this is the root of all present-day complaints about the OGL and/or Hasbro.

It’s a wrong take, but definitely spicy.

 

[Gradine]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you have strong feelings about this property

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I remember when, in my White Wolf days, I worked out that what one contingent wanted from their errata was for there never to have been a problem. They don’t want info they could print out and tuck into a book. They didn’t want a new copy of the book that didn’t have the error. They wanted their existing copy to have always been fixed. And, y’know, that’s not possible.

Not with your limited dots in Time and Matter, anyway.

 

[overgeeked]

OP: "I know it's controversial, but what if you did this thing in 5E that most other RPGs do?"

Some Posters: "Get a rope."

(If your brain added in "New York City" you're old.)

 

[trappedslider]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you have strong feelings about this property

That's my stance when ever i see a wall of text that isn't needed.

Some Posters: "Get a rope."

(If your brain added in "New York City" you're old.)

Rude.

 

[Scribe]

Today, I wish I just cut grass for a living.

 

[trappedslider]

since it's tax day in the US

 

[Thomas Shey]

I remember when, in my White Wolf days, I worked out that what one contingent wanted from their errata was for there never to have been a problem. They don’t want info they could print out and tuck into a book. They didn’t want a new copy of the book that didn’t have the error. They wanted their existing copy to have always been fixed. And, y’know, that’s not possible. So they’d go away mad and badmouth the company for years on end because they couldn’t get the simple fix of never having had a problem.

There's clearly contingent of gamers who think that no game should ever have errata at all, and a bigger one that has a probably unreasonable idea of how much errata is nearly inevitable (and not making any distinction between design errors and editing errors). This doesn't mean that there's no games that have error levels that make me cock an eye (Fireborn, I'm looking at you), but the expectations I've seen from some people are patently ridiculous.