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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3321828" data-attributes="member: 1465">Well the compendiums books obviously aren't published just to incorporate errata, that is just an accidental benefit.I do think that WotC is not doing a very good job with regards to errata, although it could be worst.First, every books has a lot of mistakes (see any John Cooper's review to get a clear idea). I know that the game is complicated and therefore difficult to double-check, but many of us buy the books for the "crunch", we buy it because we don't want to make up the numbers ourselves, and if the numbers are wrong then it spoils a small part of the reasons for having the book.The reason why mistakes are not corrected before printing the book, is that it costs. Personally I'd vastly prefer to pay 10-20% more each book to have 90% less errors, but I'm sure that if WotC does this way, it is because their marketing department knows that gamers prefer cheaper books quickly with mistakes.OTOH I don't understand why errata would be too expensive to be included in second printings. Lots of gamers don't buy a book immediately but only a few months after, and I think each book probably gets 2-3 printing batches. I can't believe they cannot afford to include errata already in the second printing...Furthermore, nowadays there is a fantastic tool which is the web: they don't even have to pay someone at WotC checking books, because they can use the free-of-charge feedback from thousands of gamers. I am sure that a couple of months after the release of a book, many of the book's mistakes (monsters stats for example) have been noticed by the fans themselves, and WotC just needs to collect them.Overall I am a bit disappointed that books always have so many mistakes, but it's not that terrible because after all the game is playable even with mistakes.What irritates me most instead is reading gamers attacking others who would like a better print quality: what are you afraid of? That WotC goes bankrupt if trying to improve their quality? That you get 2 books less per year?If you buy a car and find it defective, don't you wish the car manufacturer to fix it for you (and those who buy it next)? Or do you enjoy keeping your defective car because it benefits the car company?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> RPG gamers are weird customers  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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