What is the worst edited/proofread product you've seen?

[Bront]

Surely the hands-down winner has to be Mongoose's Conan (the first printing). I believe that they parted company with the person responsible for using 'find and replace' to change lb to lb. when referring to weight... and filled the printed version with spellb.ook and other assorted problems throughout.

That wasn't the full extent of it by a long shot, but it might give an idea about how bad it was.

Cheers

I second this. This was by far the worst edited book I've seen in D20.

In non-RPG, I have a version of a game called Paintcheck that the manual had to have been a translation, but they didn't relay out the book and so often the text just abruptly ends in mid sentance, tables are missing, and the punctuation and grammer are realy bad. The rest of the game was top noch, but since I can't figure out the rules, I haven't actualy tried to play it yet.

 

[trancejeremy]

Not to pile on Mongoose, but their Quintessential Witch somehow got published with AD&D 2e spellnames, not 3E. That is, the spells not original to the book, but borrowed from D&D, were from 2e. Dozens of them. I have scribblings all over my book (which I otherwise like).

 

[Vigilance]

This totally takes first place (and second place isn't even close).

Agreed, those talking about Conan need to go to the real school.

Sure Conan has typos, but that's what they are, typos. Foundation had sentence fragments that I couldn't even decipher on a 3rd reading.

Chuck

 

[S'mon]

Yeah, Conan's errors are striking, but the book is perfectly intelligible.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

What's this "Foundation?" Did someone actually do an Isaac Asimov-Foundation RPG?

 

[Vigilance]

What's this "Foundation?" Did someone actually do an Isaac Asimov-Foundation RPG?

Foundation was one of the first (if not the first) superhero game using the d20 system released under the OGL.

The book was poorly edited, contained no actual rules for creating supers or running a supers game and also contained little gems of good taste like listing the measurements of female supers and having rape experiences trigger superpowers (only in female heroes natch).

It might be the worst d20 product ever created overall.

Chuck

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I dearly love OGL Steampunk, I have run a game of it for almost a year now. But the editing is not good. It may not be the worst editing that I have ever seen, but it is editing that I run into every time that I work on my game.

The Auld Grump

 

[PJ-Mason]

What's this "Foundation?" Did someone actually do an Isaac Asimov-Foundation RPG?

Go check the reviews some of us did on that book in the review section. man. that book.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Yeah, Conan's errors are striking, but the book is perfectly intelligible.

Just in case I'm misinterpreted, I'd happily go on record as saying that Conan OGL is one of my favourite RPG purposes and I think the book is really great. And as S'mon says, the errors (while common and obvious) no way impair your ability to play a great Conan-themed game.

I've not had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of foundation

 

[MonsterMash]

Surely the hands-down winner has to be Mongoose's Conan (the first printing). I believe that they parted company with the person responsible for using 'find and replace' to change lb to lb. when referring to weight... and filled the printed version with spellb.ook and other assorted problems throughout.

That wasn't the full extent of it by a long shot, but it might give an idea about how bad it was.

Cheers

I think that's the worst I've seen, but I'm sure Mongoose have some other shockers out.

But I still like even the version with the errors as my review on ENWorld will make plain.