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<blockquote data-quote="deadDMwalking" data-source="post: 3489228" data-attributes="member: 51708">While a few typos are always possible, and extremely difficult to avoid completely, they are much easier to deal with now.&nbsp; Before the advent of computers, a manuscript would be re-copied a few times, including with print setting.&nbsp; Each time a copy was made an error could creep in that was not there before.Now, the finished manuscript is essentially the final print product.&nbsp; Thus, there should not be any 'new errors' added to a product after it is completed, which originally was an 'unavoidable error'.&nbsp; Even if that is the case, the number of errors and the type of errors can easily be unacceptable.&nbsp; I don't play in the Forgotten Realms (at least, not usually), but I do look over the books for that product line.&nbsp; I could not believe that the first page I opened to in Serpent Kingdoms had more than three easy to recognize typos.I make mistakes with my spelling, and I've accidentally put one word in place of another, or left part of a sentence out.&nbsp; My posts are usually better edited than the products that Wizards of the Coast has released.&nbsp; If they don't release perfectly edited books, I won't hold it against them, but I will cringe each time I come across an obvious error (particularly if they use there or their instead of they're).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="deadDMwalking, post: 3489228, member: 51708"] While a few typos are always possible, and extremely difficult to avoid completely, they are much easier to deal with now. Before the advent of computers, a manuscript would be re-copied a few times, including with print setting. Each time a copy was made an error could creep in that was not there before. Now, the finished manuscript is essentially the final print product. Thus, there should not be any 'new errors' added to a product after it is completed, which originally was an 'unavoidable error'. Even if that is the case, the number of errors and the type of errors can easily be unacceptable. I don't play in the Forgotten Realms (at least, not usually), but I do look over the books for that product line. I could not believe that the first page I opened to in Serpent Kingdoms had more than three easy to recognize typos. I make mistakes with my spelling, and I've accidentally put one word in place of another, or left part of a sentence out. My posts are usually better edited than the products that Wizards of the Coast has released. If they don't release perfectly edited books, I won't hold it against them, but I will cringe each time I come across an obvious error (particularly if they use there or their instead of they're). [/QUOTE]

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