Playing with the erratas?

[Hymness]

Hi guys,
I've been looking of wizards for erratas... My god there is plenty!

I was wondering how much important was to play with the erratas. I'm not talking about the gramatical mistakes or such... DDs, powers and all. Because... there is A LOT of erratas, I don't plan to use liquid paper in my books! If you guys play with the erratas, how do you work?

And could a game be okay without using the erratas? I'd say for my defense the most important point for not having them, is not to have a printer.

Heh.

Hymn'

 

[zjordi]

Hi guys,
I've been looking of wizards for erratas... My god there is plenty!

I was wondering how much important was to play with the erratas. I'm not talking about the gramatical mistakes or such... DDs, powers and all. Because... there is A LOT of erratas, I don't plan to use liquid paper in my books! If you guys play with the erratas, how do you work?

And could a game be okay without using the erratas? I'd say for my defense the most important point for not having them, is not to have a printer.

Heh.

Hymn'

Errata? What are you talking about? There are no errata in 4th Ed. There are only "updates".

You have to learn to be politically correct, my friend.

 

[Hymness]

Oh well sorry, updates that are changing a lot of things then.

Just thinking about the revision of the DMG p.42... Damn don't tell me you didn't understand my question!

And this looks like erratas to me...

-Damn, we just released 4E and we made a lot of mistakes! If we release erratas now, the community will be really upset!
-We'll call that updates. That way, they will love us.

 

[ebertran]

I print, cut and paste right over my book.
I'd rather have correct book than a pretty, but incorrect one.
No big deal.

 

[Milambus]

There was a thread a few weeks back that had the errata formatted so that if you printed it out on 3x5 (or maybe it was 4x6) reusable labels you could just cut them out and stick them into your book over the old text. But yea you do need a printer for that to work.

Some of the errata is very important, the new stealth and divine challenge. But if you can remember the changes you dont have to have them printed out.

 

[Ibixat]

I use a simple combination of post it flags on the stuff that was changed and just have the printed sheets of updates in my binder. Though I'm thinking printing it on labels and sticking it over may win in the end, no reason to have wrong info at all in the book, and I did just get a spiffy new color laser printer.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I'm not currently using any of the errata - but then I'm playing KotS so I'm not fussed about changing monster stats and that.

I may look into updating my books before I play too much more, but it's not causing any problems at the moment.

 

[fba827]

My group hasn't been too heavily focused on even using the errata updates. If something comes up as "this seems wierd or needs fixing" then we'll scan to see if it has an update. Otherwise, honestly, we hardly even notice or bother.

The stealth update is perhaps the big one that we had to actually say "oh, there's an update to this that makes it a lot cleaner"

Of course, our group tends to have a lot of roleplay encounters so maybe we have combat come up a little less than most groups. But in any case, the updates just haven't been worth the extra effort to track for us (except when something was obviously too clunky like stealth).

 

[Zsig]

We open the book (PHB) twice per game session on average. Most of the errata there is to fix some powers. The Powers are fully copied into each player's character sheet.

The DMG only needs the new table. The rest of it is not really compromising your gaming experience (not mine at least).

If you're a DM and you make your adventures ahead of time (I improvise sometimes), you'll check the errata for the MM and use some notes for the monsters you're using before the game.

Not a big deal IMO

 

[cjais]

Some of the errata is very important, the new stealth and divine challenge.

Buh? I see no errata for divine challenge? What's been changed?