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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Jeff" data-source="post: 2927715" data-attributes="member: 3687">Warlords>>While these errors are very minor, it sets off all sort of red flags for me. I'm not usually the one to spot all the errors in a book (part of the reason I hang around here). Excepting some of Mongoose's worst & most of Fast Forward's Stuff, all those editing & mechanics errors don't jump out at me.I wrote around 50-60 thousand words for the Accordlands books and did a lot of general assistance, and I will try to help this thread as I can. My author copies are en route as I type this, and soon I'll have a frame of reference for discussion.What I can say is seeing the names Mongoose (of old, anyway) and Fast Forward associated with these books is painful to read. Here's why.Mongoose always used to say they didn't have enough people, or the manuscript printed wasn't the one edited, or some other excuse that always related to one thing: too few folks assigned to the task.In Fast Forward's case they seemed to have two 'excuses': (1) they didn't know how the mechanics worked and (2) they didn't care too much.In our case, this was not the situation. We had plenty of folks to work through it, we knew the material, and we cared, hoo-boy we cared!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> That being said, I know the learning curve was very, very tough on our lead editor D.J., who spent holidays and weekends (as I understand it) rewriting and reworking monsters, the entire script which was turned in with 3.0 conventions, converting it all to 3.5 standards.  Those monsters then passed under the eyes of the developers, and many folks like me for accuracy. That said, if you find errors they must be typos during layout!  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Seriously, there was a lot of care put into in the project. I'm hoping as folks read through it carefully you'll find errors similar to simple things found in every d20 book ever published, even WotC, and that the errors found so far do not speak for the set as a whole nor represent the quality or time put into the project.-DM Jeff</blockquote>

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