Keeping Track of Rules Updates

[Jdvn1]

With almost 90 pages of Rules Updates/Errata, how do you keep track of it all? Do you have a binder of rules updates with page numbers? Do you fill your books with post-it notes? Do you scribble in your books? Do you throw your hands up in the air and ignore it all?

Tell me how you handle it!

 

[Nightson]

I have a DDI subscription.

 

[jasonbostwick]

The characters build their PCs and level them with the Character builder, so that takes care of most of the updates. I run some of my monsters from the Adventure Tools and some from books, but the updates to monster stats have never been that significant.

I give a quick glance over the updates when they come out to see if anything new seriously affects my game in any way, but other than that I don't really keep track of errata.

Back when the game came out and the first errata was released I started a short-lived project of formatting the updates in InDesign to print out on adhesive paper and paste into my books, but I couldn't keep up with the updates (especially after the Stealth Errata came out).

 

[Aberzanzorax]

I fairly lazily look for rules updates when the mood strikes me.

Often, if a rule seems problematic in game, I'll look into that specific rule to see if it's been updated (if it has, I usually use the "official update"...but not always...if it hasn't, I houserule it).


There was a time when I trusted the "rules as written" as some perfect system that got fixed by erratas (and I wrote in my books the "new" and "official" rules)...but eventually I realized that the rules are a great starting point but not a great ending point.

In any complicated game the players are best served by rules accompanied by judgement of how that individual group works.


So...I guess my answer is that I houserule most problems away...but might look for official advice on how they found things to be problematic.

 

[Obryn]

For any individual game, no more than a bare handful of updates will have any effect. I think only like 4-5 apply for my own game.

As for myself, I stay updated on DDI. That does the trick pretty well.

-O

 

[MacMathan]

The DDI has made it really easy for 4e.

For 3e I just kept them printed in a binder with houserules and used it as a reference for when a situation came up or seemed broken.

 

[Dannager]

I have a DDI subscription.

This.

 

[Jack99]

DDI takes care of almost every change

 

[malraux]

How much of the errata doesn't show up in DDI? I can only think of a few things (stealth, skill DCs, etc). Any errata of a power, item or monster is virtually invisible to me because it does show up in the DDI.

 

[Crothian]

They rarely effect our games so it has been really easy.