Am I a little too Type "A"

[Arnwyn]

when I was scribbling in the errata for Mutants & Masterminds, I asked myself: do other people do this? Do you guys and girls post your changes to you RPG books, or do I have psychological issues relating to published errata.

I write errata directly in my books (using a pencil). These are *game* books, and anything that makes the game more playable gets the thumbs-up from me.

(I also cut all my Dragon magazines up, putting the articles in binders or in the relevant sourcebooks.)

 

[Purkle-chan]

I certainly agree, writing in books is just wrong. There's no way to put it into words. Though I have had to force myself to do it, as English is one of thouse courses where you pretty much have to write in the books at times. Though then it was only ever in pencil.

But, to each their own.

 

[Ashe]

I'm in the military, soon to complete pilot training, and as an aviator, I am required to maintain about a dozen publications in two books. Anyway, whenever a pubs change comes down, we all get to go through the wonderful process writing in the changes. These are extensive notes in the margins and white spaces, crossing out old and out-dated data, and replacing it with the newer information.

So today, when I was scribbling in the errata for Mutants & Masterminds, I asked myself: do other people do this? Do you guys and girls post your changes to you RPG books, or do I have psychological issues relating to published errata.

I think you are ok to treat your books however you want. Personally I think everyone who keeps their books in a vaccuum chamber when not in use, only touch the pages after thorough disinfection, avoid direct sunlight on their "precious", and faint at the sight of a bent page to earmark it, are the ones that are too much the Type A personality.

 

[Lela]

Re: Re: Am I a little too Type "A"

. . .and faint at the sight of a bent page to earmark it, are the ones that are too much the Type A personality.

I agree with the other ones. But I do have a problem when people do this to books I loan out. Go ahead and use a bookmark or something but, for goodness sake, why must you start bending pages? It's a barrrowed book and should be treated with some additional respect.

I don't have a problem when they do it with they're own books though. Only when they do it to mine.

Sometimes I get annoyed when I pick up a Fantasy book at the library and find scribbled notes and highlighted portions. It's really annoying to be going through Dragons of a Winter Night and find someone comparing Kitara to the Cival War or Tasselhof (sp?) Watergate. Use your own books for that kind of thing. Not the library books.

 

[LazarusLong42]

Well, it depends on the book for me. The D&D books are effectively the same as textbooks or cookbook--tools to be used for a certain job. Sometimes, you just have to write in the tool, or make notes, or highlight specific things. I'm not likely to get my PHB signed by Monte Cook, and even if I did I doubnt it would significantly increase its value. And when WotC is the one publishing the errata... well, if they meant for it to be in there in the first place, who am I to contradict them?

OTOH, my fiction and such do not get written in. My signed firsts barely get touched.

The first case is the same as writing your name on a crescent hammer; the second is defiling a work of art.

 

[Davelozzi]

write in my books? nah, G.

 

[Zeddan]

I've wondered that myself, I am an Air Force Pilot as well as the rest of my gaming group. We all sat down one night and did a page count with the errata. That's spooky.

Good luck with flying.

 

[Scion of Vyshaan]

A page count? Wow. That never crossed my mind. But now that you mention it...

 

[Darkness]

You can be assured that I write errata in books that need it. Mostly in core rulebooks but not only in them.

 

[Olive]

I write errata into books that get used lots...

I don't write in books other than for errata, which means i only write in game books.