Errors, Development, Editing and Complete Divine

[Greatwyrm]

Watch in amazement as people actually applaud you for your professionalism, for the "positive steps" you've taken to improve your product, and be further amazed as they proceed to reward you by paying you twice for the same product.

It could happen.

It's happened twice now, as a matter of fact.

 

[Theocrat]

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.....

While I like the both CW and CD, I think that WOTC really needs to invest more time, money and/or people into editing their products. It's really disappointing, and while I don't profess to be perfect, when I buy something from the RPG overlords I ecpect it to be pretty close....Hey WotC!! Y'all need to tighten up over there in Renton! Hire me, I'll proof your stuff, it aint that hard!

Hey, I'm not perfect in my writings either, but before you ask for WotC to hire you as an editor, shouldn't you first edit your own post? EXPECT is spelled wrong in your Quote.
It does appear to me that there are many wanna-be editors out here in the RPG industry. I'm one of them, and thank Andy for his in-sights that he has/had passed along to me. With Andy being both a writer and editor, you'd expect his writtings to be of better quality (and Monte's too, with his wife doing it), and I'd say that they are. That aside, it would seem to me that it should be somewhat easier espically for smaller companies to get freelance editors (Troll Lords), with all the people that profess editorship. WotC has done that, according to Andy, and obviously they have let both WotC down as well as their customers. I'm unsure if this is what happened, but a possible scene is that a Freelance editor said they could do the job - maybe a forum poster - and they have turned out not to be the quality that they proposed.
I too hate having to spend extra hours writing in my CD to mark the errata that is proposed, much of what WotC will not acknowledge as official (the Crown Spells come to mind).
Well, there's that.
Now, lets edit some books!

 

[MerricB]

I'm generally thankful that the actual errors really don't affect actual play that much. Either I compensate for them, or I put a note in the book for those few errataed items that actually get used.

Cheers!