D&D General Kobold Press Going Down a Dark Road

[Alzrius]

Never said I did. Dont want such a book. I'm saying there was enough errata generated for 4e to fill a literal book.

Fun fact: I downloaded the printer-friendly versions (except for the very last one, which would only load the original HMTL version for some reason) of all one hundred fifteen articles of Gary Sarli's "Jedi Counseling" series from WotC's website – where he answered questions and issued errata for Star Wars d20, Star Wars d20 Revised, Star Wars Saga Edition, and the Star Wars Miniatures game – and combined them into a single PDF.

The entire file is 443 pages in length.

EDIT: Whoops, looks like Gary Sarli only took over the column as of the fifty-first installment; prior to that it was handled by JD Wiker. My mistake!

 

[Micah Sweet]

Would they even keep the pre-errata copies? I would imagine the old data files are just deleted, but I guess they could be archived. I still don't know that it would be "nice" if they offered them for sale. Seems more like a hassle if I want to by a 4e book and have to figure our which errata version I want to get.

You put a tag in the description, or the title, indicating that's the latest version. Its not that hard.

 

[Weiley31]

Still too early to tell really, for me personally. I will say this though: I will be keeping an eye on both Project Black Flag AND C7D20.

Heck, I may use both depending on how they end up turning out.

 

[Parmandur]

Neither does WotC, apparently. And can we please lay off the obsession with math as the most (or perhaps only) important part of the game?

Dungeons & Dragons is a mathematical construct with a veneer of flavor. 2014 and 2024 are using the same framework, and the options are interoperable. Other than those mathematical compatibilities, there isn't anything else to even be compatible or not.

 

[Parmandur]

ok... @Parmandur what?

Heck if I know: Michas hasn't made it clear what backwards compatibility even could be other than math.

 

[Parmandur]

It certainly was for me in the TSR days, and many other people I knew. 3.0 forward became the age of "new is always better".

4E ahiwa otherwise. You get the causality backwards: it isn't that people are only interested in thr newest thong WotC puts out, it is that WotC has gotten very good at putting out what people want.

 

[dave2008]

You put a tag in the description, or the title, indicating that's the latest version. Its not that hard.

I didn't say it would be hard, I said it would be a hassle. To be clear I was talking about from the consumer perspective, not WotC's perspective. Figuring out which tag I want to buy and then finding that tag out or 10 or so otherwise identical books seems like a hassle to me.

 

[Bolares]

I get why to many erratas are bad, that was a bad thing that happened in 4e… but why are we saying that errata existing at all is bad? Why a pre-errata version would be inherently better? I think I missed that part of the discourse.

 

[Micah Sweet]

4E ahiwa otherwise. You get the causality backwards: it isn't that people are only interested in thr newest thong WotC puts out, it is that WotC has gotten very good at putting out what people want.

WotC has certainly gotten very good at putting out what  you want. Lucky you.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I get why to many erratas are bad, that was a bad thing that happened in 4e… but why are we saying that errata existing at all is bad? Why a pre-errata version would be inherently better? I think I missed that part of the discourse.

I feel errata is needlessly confusing in a relatively expensive product people might not want to re-buy. I know I don't want someone trying to trump me by showing me a web page on their phone, or a ' shudder' Tweet from Chris Perkins.