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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3324125" data-attributes="member: 18280">(1)&nbsp; &quot;The key to selling errata&quot; would assume that &quot;selling errata&quot; was already determined to be a good thing.&nbsp; Count me among those not convinced.(2)&nbsp; The key to not having errata be &quot;a complete money sink&quot; is to edit the books properly in the first place.&nbsp; (3)&nbsp; It isn't &quot;errata&quot; that WotC apparently thinks is a serious money sink, but editting.&nbsp; And that problem doesn't go away unless it somehow costs WotC to use slipshod editting practices.&nbsp; What you suggest, simply put, means that errata is available, but there is even less incentive to edit properly in the first place.(4)&nbsp; As an example, there is no excuse for the Special Edition MM to have as many errors as have been pointed out in John Cooper's review here (<a href="http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=review&amp;reviewid=3256627)" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=review&amp;reviewid=3256627)</a>.The whole point of this &quot;deluxe edition&quot; leatherbound tome was to make it a fancy version suitable for collectors, while incorporating all of the errata that had been gathered at that point, so that the &quot;stat block purists&quot; would have a version of Core Rulebook III that they could use as-is from the book without having to worry about checking the stats against the errata file. The current version of the errata is all of six pages long - and yet, not all of the errata from these 6 scant pages made it into this &quot;deluxe edition!&quot;(4)&nbsp; This is the fault of the purchasing public, not the fault of WotC.&nbsp; Don't like the crap editting?&nbsp; Don't like that you're not getting errata to cover the crap editting?&nbsp; Stop buying the product.&nbsp; And make sure that WotC knows why you stopped buying.&nbsp; And make sure WotC knows that, when you hear their editting improves, you'll be buying again.(5)&nbsp; You're right that this situation isn't going &quot;to magically change just because a lot of gamers wish really hard&quot;.&nbsp; But it will change if those gamers instead vote with their hard earned cash.Just my $.02, I know.YMMV, I know.I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread........</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 3324125, member: 18280"] (1) "The key to selling errata" would assume that "selling errata" was already determined to be a good thing. Count me among those not convinced. (2) The key to not having errata be "a complete money sink" [i][b]is to edit the books properly in the first place[/b][/i][b][/b]. (3) It isn't "errata" that WotC apparently thinks is a serious money sink, but [i][b]editting[/b][/i][b][/b]. And that problem doesn't go away unless it somehow costs WotC to use slipshod editting practices. What you suggest, simply put, means that errata is available, but there is even less incentive to edit properly in the first place. (4) As an example, there is no excuse for the Special Edition MM to have as many errors as have been pointed out in John Cooper's review here ([url]http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=review&reviewid=3256627)[/url]. [INDENT]The whole point of this "deluxe edition" leatherbound tome was to make it a fancy version suitable for collectors, while incorporating all of the errata that had been gathered at that point, so that the "stat block purists" would have a version of Core Rulebook III that they could use as-is from the book without having to worry about checking the stats against the errata file. The current version of the errata is all of six pages long - and yet, not all of the errata from these 6 scant pages made it into this "deluxe edition!"[/INDENT] (4) This is the fault of the purchasing public, not the fault of WotC. Don't like the crap editting? Don't like that you're not getting errata to cover the crap editting? Stop buying the product. And make sure that WotC knows why you stopped buying. And make sure WotC knows that, when you hear their editting improves, you'll be buying again. (5) You're right that this situation isn't going "to magically change just because a lot of gamers wish really hard". But it will change if those gamers instead vote with their hard earned cash. Just my $.02, I know. YMMV, I know. I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread........ [/QUOTE]

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