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<blockquote data-quote="Alby87" data-source="post: 8487628" data-attributes="member: 7031244">I can really understand WHY many of those errata were made, and I personally agree. The problem is HOW they made them: those Allignement Suggestion were usefull information for new players, and those roleplaying tips in Volo were really usefull for new DMs.How I would have made it? (disclaimer: just a fan suggestion, I'm not a professional in this)PHB Allignement suggestion could have been inserted in a sidebar, with a simple heading: &quot;[race] in Faerun&quot; and a simple row in the beginning: &quot;In Toril, members of [race] usually follow this moral allignement beacuse of their culture. Your DM has the right to modify/adapt those guidelines in the campain setting&quot;. So you can place those information in the Forgotten Realms, say that's something usual but not mandatory, and give the DM the ultimate power. No text would be lost.Same for Volo. Adapt every &quot;roleplaying advice&quot; in &quot;A roleplaying example&quot;, making for every text (Beholder, Mindflayer, Yuan-ti) an example named individual (Xordox the Beholder) explaining his personality (and roleplaying tips), and telling at the end &quot;If you want to create personalitites like this one, please be inspired by it or completely make a new one using these tables to get inspiration&quot;.Those errata are the prime example of &quot;throwing the baby with the bath water&quot;... they were more than one page of good writing!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alby87, post: 8487628, member: 7031244"] I can really understand WHY many of those errata were made, and I personally agree. The problem is HOW they made them: those Allignement Suggestion were usefull information for new players, and those roleplaying tips in Volo were really usefull for new DMs. How I would have made it? (disclaimer: just a fan suggestion, I'm not a professional in this) PHB Allignement suggestion could have been inserted in a sidebar, with a simple heading: "[race] in Faerun" and a simple row in the beginning: "In Toril, members of [race] usually follow this moral allignement beacuse of their culture. Your DM has the right to modify/adapt those guidelines in the campain setting". So you can place those information in the Forgotten Realms, say that's something usual but not mandatory, and give the DM the ultimate power. No text would be lost. Same for Volo. Adapt every "roleplaying advice" in "A roleplaying example", making for every text (Beholder, Mindflayer, Yuan-ti) an example named individual (Xordox the Beholder) explaining his personality (and roleplaying tips), and telling at the end "If you want to create personalitites like this one, please be inspired by it or completely make a new one using these tables to get inspiration". Those errata are the prime example of "throwing the baby with the bath water"... they were more than one page of good writing! [/QUOTE]

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