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<blockquote data-quote="w_earle_wheeler" data-source="post: 3444797" data-attributes="member: 35955">My annoyance with typos increases with the cost of the product.A typo on a forum... so what? The person wasn't paid to write it. There's a different standard for casual communication.In a free or cheap .pdf? As long as it's just an obvious typo, it doesn't bother me. I understand the problems that arise when you have to proof your own work when self-publishing.In a standard priced book? It does bother me, but the occasional missing word can be overlooked. Below average editing is the standard in the RPG industry. The first printing of All Flesh Must Be Eaten is a good example of the (worst) of this. A great game made by great people, but the end product was terribly unprofessional. Later editions improved dramatically.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> In a deluxe book... one priced over $40? Typos and poor editing disgust me. The first printing of the Conan RPG is one of the most fearsome examples of this, as well as several other notorious Mongoose products. This is really too bad, because I liked the core rules and ideas behind Conan, but there was no way in the nine hells I was going to reward a company for putting out such a shabby product.I eventually ended up with a used copy of the &quot;pocket&quot; edition of CONAN, bought from someone who bought it used on Amazon. Since I bought it at a discount on a discount on a discount, I let the problems slide.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="w_earle_wheeler, post: 3444797, member: 35955"] My annoyance with typos increases with the cost of the product. A typo on a forum... so what? The person wasn't paid to write it. There's a different standard for casual communication. In a free or cheap .pdf? As long as it's just an obvious typo, it doesn't bother me. I understand the problems that arise when you have to proof your own work when self-publishing. In a standard priced book? It does bother me, but the occasional missing word can be overlooked. Below average editing is the standard in the RPG industry. The first printing of [COLOR=DarkRed][B]All Flesh Must Be Eaten[/B] [/COLOR]is a good example of the (worst) of this. A [I]great [/I]game made by [U]great[/U] people, but the end product was terribly unprofessional. Later editions improved dramatically. :) In a deluxe book... one priced over $40? Typos and poor editing disgust me. The first printing of the [COLOR=DarkRed][B]Conan RPG[/B][/COLOR] is one of the most fearsome examples of this, as well as several other notorious Mongoose products. This is really too bad, because I liked the core rules and ideas behind [COLOR=DarkRed][B]Conan[/B][/COLOR], but there was no way in the nine hells I was going to reward a company for putting out such a shabby product. I eventually ended up with a used copy of the "pocket" edition of CONAN, bought from someone who bought it used on Amazon. Since I bought it at a discount on a discount on a discount, I let the problems slide. [/QUOTE]

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