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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abe.ebA" data-source="post: 2891641" data-attributes="member: 32545">I kind of wonder how editing is done in general.  For most companies publishing a printed product you only need one or two sorts of editor.  Someone to check the actual writing (the prose, grammar, and spelling, that is) and someone to check for legal problems or to massage bits of the text to fit into their format.RPGs seem like a whole different beast, at least to me.  The grammar, spelling, and writing guy doesn't necessarily need to know anything about d&d.  The legal guy is more likely to pop up in a 3rd party company to parse for OGL problems.  But then you need, I'd say, at least two more editors.  Someone whose job it is to look for rules that duplicate (in whole or in part) existing rules and look for obvious contradictions right in the rules statements and another guy to read and edit stat blocks.I say all this because I'm wondering if perhaps WotC is trying to multi-task their editors.  Do they actually have people whose job it is just to comb through stat blocks for errors?  Or is the same guy looking for a comma splice and an extra 5hp?  If it's the latter then I'm not surprised there are so many errors.  I see people here on ENWorld posting stat block errors the day that a book hits shelves.  If WotC really has people who just edit stat blocks (or even stat blocks and rules both) then the problems are just inexcusable and whoever edited this book should get the boot.  If it's just a couple of guys (or one guy) who gets the whole manuscript and is told "Find all the errors." then I don't blame him (or them) for making mistakes.  Well, I do, since they're getting paid not to... but it's a lot more understandable <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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