Print On Demand solving the issue of errata

[IronWolf]

You did. The future is now: Wizards now have a really good way of distributing errata: the D&D Compendium and Character Builder. 99% of errata will likely be to words that are in those sources. They should (and will) maintain the free errata as well, but by its very nature it just can't be as good.

Ah - I did miss the initial point. I certainly hope they continue to maintain the free errata as well. As I do object to any "you must be a subscriber to have access to current errata" philosophy.

Would it be nice if they had a PDF of the rulebook which they kept updated? Yeah, it really would. Unfortunately, this is something that is likely just Too Expensive. ....

This I just don't get. It seems that Paizo updates their PDFs over the course of time to include revisions, though I only own a small amount of PDFs from Paizo at the moment, but my library is growing, so perhaps I am mistaken on this point as well. I do know I have received email notification that a PDF I had previously purchased had been updated and was available for re-download.

 

[MerricB]

This I just don't get. It seems that Paizo updates their PDFs over the course of time to include revisions, though I only own a small amount of PDFs from Paizo at the moment, but my library is growing, so perhaps I am mistaken on this point as well. I do know I have received email notification that a PDF I had previously purchased had been updated and was available for re-download.

How many PDFs does Paizo change every month?

I think the biggest problem occurs when the page count changes... little things like changing "+2" to "-2" are easy; but page count changes - especially when they need to be reflected in the next printed run - are extremely problematic.

Cheers!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The Compendium is great IF you know (exactly) what you're looking for. If you don't, then it's awful. You could spend hours searching for something. The search engine itself is horrible. I've often searched for something and simply had the incorrect tense and it would come up with nothing. So I'd have to try every permutation of the word I could think of until I was lucky enough to hit on the right one, if I did at all.

It is good to know that something is bad.

Have you let WotC know? They might be able to do something about it.

 

[IronWolf]

How many PDFs does Paizo change every month?

I am not really sure, my Paizo PDF colletion is still relatively small (growing though!). I know I have had some of my PDFs receive updated versions, but I don't have enough PDFs to say how many get updated each month with any sense of certainty or validity.