Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan van Leyden" data-source="post: 6283250" data-attributes="member: 20307">Wow! That's some thread... <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=":)" />I assume customers will see a lot of errata for 5e as well, and not for typos only. The reason is simple: the game will be extended by additional rules modules each of which - in the best of all worlds - can be used in any single game. This opens up dozens of variations. Now could the desginers foresee a rules module which will be published in four years? I don't think so.So they either limit themselves when designing the new module that it falls completely within the border defined by the core rules or they try something new and risk producing incongruencies, which make rules changing errata necessary.Playtesting such an addition to hammer out each and every problem is next to impossible: the number of possible variations of the modules prohibits it.And if you want 5e to have a long run, maybe even be an evergreen version, it becomes more pronounced. Many gamers will start craving for some "interesting" addition, so you will have to get more experimental. While the "Manual of Halfling Gardening" might be quite safe to design, the sales will probably not suffice.Another question ist the errata threshold: do you fix/change each and every little thing (typos, I'm looking at you)? If not, how do you decide what to fix? Do you appoint a bug manager who does nothing but evaluate bug report and applications for changes? Bug fixing by committee?The 4e "solution" with the CB and the online compendium was conceptually cool. Each single item could be changed and auto-feeded to the gamers (with DDI, though). If they would have added the possiblitiy compare different versions of the texts, maybe even "save" the version for me that I like best, I would have been a happy camper.</blockquote>

Verification