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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 4135533" data-attributes="member: 326">Hey there Colin_Fredericks! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Thanks for the kind words. Funny you mention it, I just today (almost by accident) read John Cooper's review (on these forums) for Monster Manual V by Wizards of the Coast. In his review he states that there is a 55% chance of stat block mistakes in that book. This is a book with three professional editors and one professional editing manager. He also goes on to mention several other errors (outside the stat blocks).This is a book with about 17 professional writers, four editors and the resources of by far the biggest PnP RPG company behind them.I'm one writer (also doing the layout and art duties while trying to keep a part time job) with one editor who basically works for free copies and a bunch of die hard immortal fans who help out for free. Contrast that with WotC and Eternity Publishing is basically the smallest PnP RPG company with the least resources.So, realistically speaking, if WotC can't get it right what chance do we have? Thats not to say we don't try our best (time allowed). Oh its a tad more than that, and thats way before counting the beta version buyers. Of course the US dollar doesn't go a long way here in the UK, but if I imagine the dollars are really pounds I can almost pretend I could make a living from this sort of thing...assuming I could release a book every 3 months.But under the assumption that I had made $200 profit so far, theres no way I could justify $163 for an editor. I may as well work for free if thats the case. Technically my book isn't finished yet. I know thats an easy excuse, but I always make a point of reading over the entire document before I consider it finished. I just haven't had the time to do that yet, and with the book in the limbo of being 'almost but not quite finished' I'm waiting until its done before I do that.I hope the mistakes haven't dampened your enthusiasm too much and thanks again for the feedback.</blockquote>

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