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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5817528" data-attributes="member: 22779">How much is a "ton" of errata?If you look at the PHB 1, the most errata'd book in 4e, you'll find that about 5% of material actually saw any changes, and most of those were simply language fixes.  And, it's not like the game is unplayable pre-errata.  It's fine.  It does work.  Post errata might work better, that's fair enough, but, it's not like it's massively changing the game to have something do an extra +1 to damage on every hit.I mean, heck, the Monster Manual 1 only has 5 pages of Errata.  That's it.  5 pages out of 250(ish) isn't exactly game breaking.Heck, you've got TranceJeremy talking about how 3pp had such higher production values.  Yet, I've got a stack of OGL material here that has abysmal proofreading (ores instead of orcs being one of the most egregious, thank you Alderac EG)  and absolutely horrid mechanics (I'm looking at you Mongoose and certainly in the direction of Sword and Sorcery Press).  But, when it comes down to actual comparisons, suddenly WOTC's not doing too badly.But, everyone goes on and on and on about WOTC's errata.  Good grief, why don't you go bug Paizo for a change.  They've got an errata document too.  Yet I never here the constant complaints about how Paizo is doing such a crappy job with their material.Having gamed through the era when we were actually charged for errata, I think putting errata in an easily found location on a website is probably the best way to go.</blockquote>

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