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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9231240" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Man, I don't know. If I only had the print versions of Warhammer Fantasy it would drive me crazy annotating the margins and adding slip sheets to keep up with all the errata. Cubicle 7 just delivered a huge number of updates to (it seems) most of their published books for xmas. They release new versions of the PDFs on DrivethruRPG and you can update the modules in Foundry. It is nice that they make it easy to update, but they are not good at telling you WHAT was updated. You have to go hunting for it. They post a brief summary on their blog, but if I want to see the actual text changes, I find I have to rely on the community. If I only bought the physical books, I would find this especially annoying. Even with the digital assets, it isn't helpful to me read &quot;the rules for Ogres have been updated.&quot;&nbsp; That doesn't tell me how these rules affect ogre characters already created. I don't even know if the Foundry module updates update the character sheets. The updater just says &quot;66 items updated&quot;. Not which items and what. The Cubicle 7 &quot;resources&quot; section of their website only gives an errata PDF for the core rulebook.I had to go to Reddit and the Ratcatcher's Discord server to figure out what, exactly, was changed.DDB, in comparison, does a MUCH better job with their change log which, while focused on mechanical changes to the platform, also links to errata documentation for content changes. DDB is by no means perfect. I would like some in-line indication of changes, with the ability to view the older text. But at least I don't feel left in the dark when they do make changes.So, while I am an enthusiastic consumer of digital tools, [USER=6747251]@Micah Sweet[/USER] and others who have raised concerns about how errata are handled in digital platforms have a good point. Sticking to physical books, however, doesn't really solve anything if you want to incorporate the changes if there isn't an easily accessible log of all the changes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9231240, member: 6796661"] Man, I don't know. If I only had the print versions of Warhammer Fantasy it would drive me crazy annotating the margins and adding slip sheets to keep up with all the errata. Cubicle 7 just delivered a huge number of updates to (it seems) most of their published books for xmas. They release new versions of the PDFs on DrivethruRPG and you can update the modules in Foundry. It is nice that they make it easy to update, but they are not good at telling you WHAT was updated. You have to go hunting for it. They post a brief summary on their blog, but if I want to see the actual text changes, I find I have to rely on the community. If I only bought the physical books, I would find this especially annoying. Even with the digital assets, it isn't helpful to me read "the rules for Ogres have been updated." That doesn't tell me how these rules affect ogre characters already created. I don't even know if the Foundry module updates update the character sheets. The updater just says "66 items updated". Not which items and what. The Cubicle 7 "resources" section of their website only gives an errata PDF for the core rulebook. I had to go to Reddit and the Ratcatcher's Discord server to figure out what, exactly, was changed. DDB, in comparison, does a MUCH better job with their change log which, while focused on mechanical changes to the platform, also links to errata documentation for content changes. DDB is by no means perfect. I would like some in-line indication of changes, with the ability to view the older text. But at least I don't feel left in the dark when they do make changes. So, while I am an enthusiastic consumer of digital tools, [USER=6747251]@Micah Sweet[/USER] and others who have raised concerns about how errata are handled in digital platforms have a good point. Sticking to physical books, however, doesn't really solve anything if you want to incorporate the changes if there isn't an easily accessible log of all the changes. [/QUOTE]

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