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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1833705" data-attributes="member: 1465">While Diaglo said he was joking with his first comment, I thought he quite catched some good points as well.I quite rarely see books of other kinds with hardly any errata, but it looks like errors in RPG books are the norm, and the majority of the customers don't seem to care much for them. I guess the nature of the content (which is very technical, but at the same time has not a "true" meaning as a scientific/technological publication) is such that mistakes are much easier and proofreading is much harder.But the real point is IMHO that customers just buy it anyway, and they're more concerned about getting the book as soon as possible - some would often even pay more to have it 1 week earlier, which is sometimes incredible to me - or don't have time to worry because there's already the next book coming!While usually any other book gets printed a few times, and the second print already has all the errata found and corrected, RPG books gets printed with the same errors (except the core ones hopefully). Perhaps it depends on the fact that the overall number of copies printed is so small that there is only one print, of course.Still, normally when people around here buy any book and find lots of mistakes in it, do you know what happens? They bring back the book to the shop and get a refund. The worse the print of a book, the more people return it until the editors notice that it's actually more proficuous to check their products better before they go to print. But the RPG business is different, we customers are so "aficionados" that we whine a while about the quality but at the end forgive the publisher (the main one at least) as long as the next book is somewhat better.I really think that a business is much more lead by the customers than it is by the producers after all, so let's face that what we get is actually what we ask for (averagely speaking, obviously).  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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