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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 4388392" data-attributes="member: 43283">Sweeeeeeeeet.It always brightens my day when I hear a gamer making an explicit decision like this.All the folks I personally know? They don't care about errata. They simply make it up and go from there. And I personally am that way mostly.If there is errata for a game, I may or may not look through it. If I've found I needed to make a number of ad-hoc decisions, I'll see if I can find something specifically addressing that. If there is, groovy. I can see what the designers (?) were thinking in terms of how things should work out, and compare it to my own sensibilities. If they match, cool. If they don't, then I simply decide which particular vision seems like it'd be more fun, and go from there.For example, 3.x? I know there's errata out there for it. And I've never read a single bit of it. And I don't plan on reading it either. I already chop the game up to suit my sensibilities, and the "fixes" they're coming out with are for things I don't see as a problem for a variety of reasons.And I think that's one biiiiiiiiiig consideration with the issue of errata.Some of it that comes out is, "Oh damn! We're sorry folks, we forgot to include [whatever]" or "Holy cow! We screwed up. On page [blah blah], it's supposed to read..."These days it seems like a lot of "errata" isn't in the original sense of the word; that is, it's not actually fixing errors.Instead, "errata" seems to be much more along the lines of "rule revisions". These might be revisions for "clarity" (which I'm leery of, but occasionally see some value) or they're going to be revisions because so many people complained about something.Of course, the complainers get what they want because they make a stink about it. A lot of other folks that don't have a problem don't bother saying anything because they're either not forum rats, or they don't feel like having an argument about a non-issue for them.I think the issue of "errata" in games these days feeds in with the consumptive relationship many people have with rpgs. Just like folks expect patches to their videogames and software, upgrades to this or that service, there's an expectation that the rpgs are also going to continue to be "supported". Which means not just pumping out new product every month (although that's necessary to avoid being labeled a "dead" game) but also applying "patches" to the rules of the various books out there.And don't forget that some folks just like to bitch about rules or whatnot more than they play the game. <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" />Sidenote:So ummmm..... you're going to play the games as written, but using houserules? <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" /> I realize what you meant ("I don't give a crap about 'official' errata, the book stands as it is combined with my houserules") it just read funny to me.</blockquote>

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