My guess is it went through a number of last-minute alterations, and the final version was done hastily.

I’m not sure whether or not I’ll print and keep track of errata, guess it depends on who’s gm’ing and how much players complain about using the core book as is.

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While it’s nice to keep your books pristine, I have found over the years that keeping them useful is more important to me.

Final note: some of the errata I didn’t even mark, as it seemed like common sense stuff or slight wording changes, like the things to re-state a power could only be used once a round.

Convenience and immediacy is not enough to justify spending full price for an electronic version of a pulp-product — not when that full price is going to be $20+ for the lifetime of the product.

Meeting those three suggestions would go a long way towards selling the idea to me though. Without them, I don’t see myself ever paying full price for D&D PDFs — not when I own pulp-copies of each book already.

Not helpful in answering your question, I know, but it works for my group.

My hope is that they update the PDFs regularly, so I can just pay for and download the PDF versions with everything incorporated, and so then when it matters (at the game table) I can rely on the digital copies, since the broad strokes of the game used while planning are fine without it.

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This brings up a question I’ve always wondered. How does one efficiently keep track of errata? Or more specifically, how do *you guys* (meaning the fine folks who read and maintain this blog) efficiently keep track of errata, if you do at all? My solution to 3.5’s errata was to roundly ignore the majority of it, except for the major changes (i.e. polymorph, monster stat block changes, etc.) With 4e, I think I’m going to start being more errata-saavy, but I was wondering how to go about doing it without marring my books with ugly red mark-up. My initial leaning is to keep a separate binder labeled errata, print out these pdfs, and place asterisks or little stickers next to all the offending text in the books. My worry with marking the book with asterisks is that at some point in an update there might be a truncation of a section marked with an asterisks, thus making it redundant and confusing. My worry about using stickers is increasing the size of the book and screwing with the binding/ making it hard to fit the books into my handsome slipcover. A middle road solution might be to use asterisks marked in pencil and just do it lightly.

What do you folks think? Anyone have tried and true solutions, or am I being altogether too costive?

Dave: Good god, as if it wasn’t a level 1 TPK machine already! The latest adventure from Dungeon is designed for level 1 PC’s, and one of the random encounters listed in it is a Vine Horror w/ 3 Stirges. Talk about scary…

Bartoneus: Here’s the most important errata: Gelatinous Cube- Replace the slam damage: “1d6 + 2 damage” with “2d6 + 2 damage.”

Philip Kendall’s last post: *sigh*

Sort of mixed feeling about the errata… glad there’s something being done, but that’s a lot of monster changes in particular.