Dragon Compendium Volume 2

[diaglo]

No, no standards of perfection here.

Editing in the gaming industry is a joke. Not just WoTC but every game publisher. AEG's WLF, Warlords, and L5R 3rd edition all have major gaffs for example. Most White Wolf books still have editing errors here and there. heck, I remember a time when they were xx pages in almost every book they did.

A few books escape this editing but for most, it's a non-issue. In most cases, as they're generally single print runs, you're scrwed with hoping to see some online errata. With the DC it's worse because they carried over the errors without fixing them.

Still, it'd be nice to see more than lip service given to the idea of editing.

qft.

i nominated Spycraft last year as a judge... but i had the hardest time with it due to need its for editing.

 

[grimblade]

Count me in for DC2.

 

[The_Gneech]

And while you're at it, give Code Monkey Publishing their license back!

-The Gneech

 

[Razz]

Go ahead and write WotC requesting DCII, but save the innuendo for another time. Saying that WotC is taking its time on granting permission is a jab that is not needed.

With mistakes WotC have been making as of late, I wouldn't be surprised if they were just taking their time.

From what ~I~ got in those statements, it sounds to me like they're ready to do a DC2 (or else, why would they call the first one Volume One?) and are waiting for the "ok" from WotC. This sounds to me like they've asked WotC already and WotC keeps dilly-dallying. I personally think it's overdue for a DC2.

But to each his own.

And that wasn't the thread I was talking about, though I've read that one too.

Here it is: Any News on Volume 2?

 

[JoeGKushner]

qft.

i nominated Spycraft last year as a judge... but i had the hardest time with it due to need its for editing.

I remember that. Heck, you caught far more editing/errors than I did and I like to think I'm reading for comprehension/utility!

 

[Greylock]

Didn't Erik say, on several occasions, that the first DC had a lot of later 3.x material out of the necessity of seeing how the market responded to the book? And that eventual, hopefully, Compendiums would delve deeper into the archives?

I'd swear I saw him say that about a half a million times. Give or take a few.

 

[Psion]

Didn't Erik say, on several occasions, that the first DC had a lot of later 3.x material out of the necessity of seeing how the market responded to the book? And that eventual, hopefully, Compendiums would delve deeper into the archives?

At least once...

Future volumes, if there are any, will focus largely upon older material.

 

[Seeker95]

And that wasn't the thread I was talking about, though I've read that one too.

Here it is: Any News on Volume 2?

Umm... that's the thread the McArtor quotes came from.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Didn't Erik say, on several occasions, that the first DC had a lot of later 3.x material out of the necessity of seeing how the market responded to the book? And that eventual, hopefully, Compendiums would delve deeper into the archives?

I'd swear I saw him say that about a half a million times. Give or take a few.

Indeed. And yet some of the material included that weird concept given class by Mike Mearls... the Mounteback or something? Updating old edition stuff to newer edition when it wasn't even a class proper? :\ Strange choices there man. Strange choices.

 

[BOZ]

Didn't Erik say, on several occasions, that the first DC had a lot of later 3.x material out of the necessity of seeing how the market responded to the book? And that eventual, hopefully, Compendiums would delve deeper into the archives?

I'd swear I saw him say that about a half a million times. Give or take a few.

most people will ignore that part, though, until they actually see it.

but thanks for reminding me; i had forgotten it.