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<blockquote data-quote="ReshiIRE" data-source="post: 9271984" data-attributes="member: 7031231">... that's your interpretation of what happened.The Core Rulebook over 4 revisions have the current rules. The Gamemastery Screen disagreed, but never had any errata.It is true that the preview of Player Core had a rule that matched what was in the Gamemastery Screen, but before release Paizo said they were releasing errata to ensure that the correct rule was put into Player Core, which matched what was in Core Rulebook.I know a former developer of the game stated what they treated the rule as, but any evidence of that rule existing in the released game was entirely based on a confusing sidebar that was explicitly removed from Player Core, and most people ignored or glossed over in the Core Rulebook.The people using the harsher ruling were misinterpreting the rules. What's much more likely is that when Player Core was being updated, someone found the contradiction between the Core Rulebook and the Gamemastery Screen, saw that the latter had come out after the Core Rulebook, and put in that incorrect version of the rule into Player Core; this wasn't caught until those who got the preview grab held of it. Paizo hasn't stated that's how it happened - but what they have stated indicated they made a mistake when releasing Player Core (and by extension, Gamemastery Screen).To believe otherwise is to state that Paizo lied about why they were issuing an errata, that Paizo changed a fundamental rule without announcing it for ~reasons~, and that in 4 years of errata and checking issues, Paizo never corrected their main product.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ReshiIRE, post: 9271984, member: 7031231"] ... that's your interpretation of what happened. The [I]Core Rulebook [/I]over 4 revisions have the current rules. The [I]Gamemastery Screen [/I]disagreed, but never had any errata. It is true that the preview of [I]Player Core[/I] had a rule that matched what was in the [I]Gamemastery Screen[/I], but before release Paizo said they were releasing errata to ensure that the correct rule was put into [I]Player Core[/I], which matched what was in [I]Core Rulebook[/I]. I know [I]a [/I]former developer of the game stated what they treated the rule as, but any evidence of that rule existing in the released game was entirely based on a confusing sidebar that was explicitly removed from [I]Player Core[/I], and most people ignored or glossed over in the [I]Core Rulebook[/I]. The people using the harsher ruling were misinterpreting the rules. What's much more likely is that when [I]Player Core[/I] was being updated, someone found the contradiction between the [I]Core Rulebook[/I] and the [I]Gamemastery Screen[/I], saw that the latter had come out after the [I]Core Rulebook[/I], and put in that incorrect version of the rule into [I]Player Core[/I]; this wasn't caught until those who got the preview grab held of it. Paizo hasn't stated that's how it happened - but what they have stated indicated they made a mistake when releasing [I]Player Core [/I](and by extension, [I]Gamemastery Screen[/I]). To believe otherwise is to state that Paizo lied about why they were issuing an errata, that Paizo changed a fundamental rule without announcing it for ~reasons~, and that in 4 years of errata and checking issues, Paizo never corrected their main product. [/QUOTE]

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