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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 3447860" data-attributes="member: 20239">But my point is that these publishers don't really need to hire proofreaders to catch 90% of the stupid errors that make their way into the products.  If you have the writing skill to actually sit down and write an RPG book you should certainly have the skill to catch obvious errors like...."Such an action requires the chamacter to roll on the Chaos Mutation table at +20_the roll.  Any result higher than than 80 indicates the character is become irrevocably tainted."Most of those errors would be caught by a simple grammar/spellcheck.  The others are so obvious that anyone with a standard high school education in English should catch them on a single, thorough, read-through.  The people who actually do the writing and work at the companies publishing these books are more than qualified to edit their own work for these kinds of mistakes (if they aren't maybe they shouldn't be making their living as writers in the first place).  The choice isn't 1) hire a professional proofreader/editor vs. 2) publish unproofread work.  The choice is 1) take the time to do our own proofreading vs. 2) send a messy book out the door so we can use the extra time to start writing our next messy book.</blockquote>