D&D 4E Will errata ever be incorporated in 4E books?

[Voadam]

I heard the PHB in the PHB/PHB2 combo packs and the latest errata in them at that time, but I have not confirmed it.

I had heard somebody say that as well on the internet but it is not true. The PH I in mine was first printing from June 2008.

 

[Voadam]

When they sold the 4e pdfs they were pretty good at incorporating the errata into the electronic files. Up until they decided not to sell pdfs anymore or even allow purchased ones to be redownloaded.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Actually this is the reason why i have not bought the first set of books. Some errors are ok, but especially the first monster books hat too obvious errors and too many errors to be useful as a game reference book.

the monster book is the most important thing to have at the table if you are running a sandbox campaign or if you convert an adventure on the fly.

The best solution for the book would be an updated print with a list at the end which tells you what has changed so that you are aware of them at a table with different books at hand.

 

[jdrakeh]

Well, this is kind of like people who never get around to buy a personal computer because PCs are evolving all the time and prices drop all the time. There is never exactly the right point to get one. It always seems better to wait a tiny bit longer...

The problem is: You don't have a PC all this time. Sometimes it's better not to worry and simply get the damn thing.

Waiting for errata to be incorporated in printed books is hardly the unreasonable or unwise choice you're trying to paint it as (after all, I'm paying money for these things). Besides, you've missed an option — it's not a question of making due with a crippled product or going without. I can choose to purchase and support other products that do incorporate errata or that don't need much of it to begin with (which is what I've done). I haven't been without. I've been playing other games. In other words: the problem that you mention? I don't have it.

 

[Flipguarder]

Waiting for errata to be incorporated in printed books is hardly the unreasonable or unwise choice you're trying to paint it as (after all, I'm paying money for these things). Besides, you've missed an option — it's not a question of making due with a crippled product or going without. I can choose to purchase and support other products that do incorporate errata or that don't need much of it to begin with (which is what I've done). I haven't been without. I've been playing other games. In other words: the problem that you mention? I don't have it.

So in the 4e forum, where it is declared you can either go with the product or not. you say "No, see I can buy other products."

Unnecessary, and terribly placed flaming (however well worded it may be), based on a product's utilization and dependence on new technology to make more money, is just kind of ridiculous.

Please go talk about how superior your favorite products are somewhere else.

Admin here. Folks, this is an excellent example of an unnecessarily rude post. It's completely fine if people disagree with you (and they're going to!); when they do, getting angry isn't the right way to reply. ~ PCat

 

[Voadam]

I think the silver foil special edition 4e MM has the errata incorporated in it. (I believe thats what the blurb on Amazon said). I wish I had bought that used one I saw on Amazon, the 4eMM I bought through amazon in January was first printing and has the double hp angel and everything.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

So in the 4e forum, where it is declared you can either go with the product or not. you say "No, see I can buy other products."

Unnecessary, and terribly placed flaming (however well worded it may be), based on a product's utilization and dependence on new technology to make more money, is just kind of ridiculous.

Please go talk about how superior your favorite products are somewhere else.

it has nothing to do with flaming.

It is just a reasonable choice not to buy a book full of errors when you have DDI...

 

[Turtlejay]

Sure it is, if that's what he said. Flipguarder might be over-reacting a little, but the core of his point is valid.

Jay

 

[jdrakeh]

So in the 4e forum, where it is declared you can either go with the product or not. you say "No, see I can buy other products."

Well, it is an option. A viable option. I'm sorry that you don't like it, but that doesn't change the reality of the situation. Saying that one must play 4e or nothing at all isn't reasonable or fair; it's a bit of bullying at best.

Choosing not to buy printed books because they haven't been corrected, OTOH, is perfectly reasonable and fair (especially with the DDI out there, as another poster mentions).

Waiting for corrected printings to come about before spending hundreds of dollars on books is also reasonable and fair. In the meantime, it is similarly reasonable and fair to play other games.

Please go talk about how superior your favorite products are somewhere else.

I never claimed that my choices were superior. If you're going to respond to the things that I post, please don't put words in my mouth.

[Edit: I can see how you (Flipguarder) may have interpreted what I wrote to mean that the games I'm currently playing are superior to 4e by virtue of having less errata. That was not my intent. I was speaking to the page:error ratio of the other games that I play. Frex, Basic D&D (32 pages long) has almost no errors due to its low page count when compared to D&D 4e, not because it is an inherently better game.]

 

[jdrakeh]

N/M. See edit above.