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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 3389444" data-attributes="member: 40166">The job of an editor of a physics text or a new roleplaying book has to include checking the numbers. It's not about original research; we're not complaining (on this thread, at least) about&nbsp; overpowered feats or underpowered races. We're complaining about getting the numbers to add up and the characters to come out right. In D&amp;D, that's less than trivial, but anyone who knows the game should be able to do it, and why would you hire an editor in this business who didn't know the game? If you can't do that, how can you spot text that's unclear?At Steve Jackson Games, I know that at least some of this is done by the playtesters. I earned my free copy of GURPS Japan, back when playtesting was more open, by going through and checking all the stat blocks. (For a while I was afraid I wasn't going to find anything; Hunter Johnson did pretty good work getting that all correct on his own.) But I certainly expect that when Steve Jackson or Dr. Kromm edit a book that they check all this stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 3389444, member: 40166"] The job of an editor of a physics text or a new roleplaying book has to include checking the numbers. It's not about original research; we're not complaining (on this thread, at least) about overpowered feats or underpowered races. We're complaining about getting the numbers to add up and the characters to come out right. In D&D, that's less than trivial, but anyone who knows the game should be able to do it, and why would you hire an editor in this business who didn't know the game? If you can't do that, how can you spot text that's unclear? At Steve Jackson Games, I know that at least some of this is done by the playtesters. I earned my free copy of GURPS Japan, back when playtesting was more open, by going through and checking all the stat blocks. (For a while I was afraid I wasn't going to find anything; Hunter Johnson did pretty good work getting that all correct on his own.) But I certainly expect that when Steve Jackson or Dr. Kromm edit a book that they check all this stuff. [/QUOTE]

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