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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9451650" data-attributes="member: 7006">It is inevitable.&nbsp; Because the people who edit these tomes have been seeing things over and over for months on end with the barest hint of changes showing up here and there throughout these documents.&nbsp; Even their internal playtesters probably see the same documents so many times with just the slightest of revisions that everyone just becomes blinded to how one sentence over here interacts with another sentence over there when the second sentence was re-written six times over the course of four months leading up to publication.But once you put the document in front of thousands of people all at one time... of course they as a massive group are going to easily notice each 't' that didn't get crossed or each 'i' that wasn't dotted because they haven't been staring at these words for so long that they all run together.The only way to really solve this situation would be to hand the &quot;finished&quot; document out to the entire world as a 'beta test realm' (to use video game parlance) for them to find every single mistake or misinterpretation, and then gather all of that once more and try to &quot;fix&quot; these things right before going to the printers.&nbsp; But of course... you then have an entire book out in the wild (just missing art and binding) that pretty much renders the need for people to buy the real book nil.&nbsp; And that's why they don't do that.As far as players themselves are concerned with how things are done now... they either need to wait a few months for a &quot;second printing&quot; to get made so they can get a version with any errata added to it... or they just have to accept that 99.99% of the book is completely fine and useable, and be okay with checking an errata document for that one thing that they actually come across whose wording has changed and that they actually use.&nbsp; Because goodness knows most of an errata document won't ever come up for any one player as it just never applies to their game.Heck, I know for me I downloaded every single updated errata document for 5E14 as they got released... and yet never once did I ever actually refer to it.&nbsp; Because I just used &quot;common sense&quot; interpretation on every rule I came across when there might have been an issue regardless of how the grammar might have made things squiggly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9451650, member: 7006"] It is inevitable. Because the people who edit these tomes have been seeing things over and over for months on end with the barest hint of changes showing up here and there throughout these documents. Even their internal playtesters probably see the same documents so many times with just the slightest of revisions that everyone just becomes blinded to how one sentence over here interacts with another sentence over there when the second sentence was re-written six times over the course of four months leading up to publication. But once you put the document in front of thousands of people all at one time... of course they as a massive group are going to easily notice each 't' that didn't get crossed or each 'i' that wasn't dotted because they haven't been staring at these words for so long that they all run together. The only way to really solve this situation would be to hand the "finished" document out to the entire world as a 'beta test realm' (to use video game parlance) for them to find every single mistake or misinterpretation, and then gather all of that once more and try to "fix" these things right before going to the printers. But of course... you then have an entire book out in the wild (just missing art and binding) that pretty much renders the need for people to buy the real book nil. And that's why they don't do that. As far as players themselves are concerned with how things are done now... they either need to wait a few months for a "second printing" to get made so they can get a version with any errata added to it... or they just have to accept that 99.99% of the book is completely fine and useable, and be okay with checking an errata document for that one thing that they actually come across whose wording has changed and that they actually use. Because goodness knows most of an errata document won't ever come up for any one player as it just never applies to their game. Heck, I know for me I downloaded every single updated errata document for 5E14 as they got released... and yet never once did I ever actually refer to it. Because I just used "common sense" interpretation on every rule I came across when there might have been an issue regardless of how the grammar might have made things squiggly. [/QUOTE]

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