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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 2786617" data-attributes="member: 1465">I was wondering about how frequent rules update are in 3rd edition, and how do different groups deal with them in practice.Of course the biggest rules update was the advent of 3.5, but the errata, FAQ and Sage advice (albeit not everyone treats them the same way with regards to how official they should be) have been around since the beginning. FAQs come out quite often in my opinion, and sometimes they imply actual changes to the rules. Furthermore, some books occasionally update something from previous books or even the core.How does your group deal with these? Do you follow all updates, and if necessary do you update your campaign and your characters according to the new FAQ or the new version of everything? And if you do that, do you buy all the books, or do you just snatch the update information from the web?Otherwise, if you don't buy a book which has a rule update, do you feel entitled to keep using the old rule, or do you feel outdated? This happened to me in 3.0 when the early splatbooks released corrections to Polymorph and Wild Shape for instance, but I didn't have those books at first, and I was quite irritated when someone pointed out that I was outdated... My reaction was to say that if I didn't have the book, the new rule didn't exist IMC. Then I bought the splatbooks because I actually liked them, so no problem switching to the updated rules afterwards.Recently it seems that Spell Compendium for example has updated non-core spells, at least changing a lot of names but IIRC also changing the actual spell. How are you going to deal with this? Would you feel entitled to keep using the existing versions (if you don't want to buy the SC), would you feel compelled to update yourself without necessarily buy the new book, or would you actually really need it?What is your approach with new FAQ versions instead? (being free, it could be pretty different)I just have the feeling that our group is not interested in keeping up-to-date with the FAQ and less with the books...</blockquote>

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