Errata Isn’t in my Vocabulary
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Errata anyone?
Every couple months, RPG companies come out with their latest batch of errata for their games. For those who don’t know what errata is, it’s all the changes they’ve made to the game, since they realized how screwed up some rule was that they didn’t fix in the initial playtesting. As the years go on, the errata piles up, until players and DMs alike aren’t even reading the rulebooks anymore, just the errata.
I’ve seen some games that you could simply download all the errata from their website, and by piecing it together, you could easily learn how to play the game and run it. It can get pretty bad.
So why is it that errata isn’t in my vocabulary? Because I don’t have the time during a game to look up a rule, then look through a stack of errata to make sure that’s the current way the rules are interpreted. When the PHBs and DMGs come out and have a section on how the rules have been changed, I’ll follow those, but only because they’re in an actual book.
I don’t use errata because my players aren’t the type to try to break the game. They don’t go looking for those game-breaking rules in the rulebook. And really, are there any game-breaking rules in the game, or are they really just game-bending.
I don’t really care about balance at all. If the players are having a good time, and I’m able to tell a story, I’m happy. I’ll start reading the errata when I find a rule in the book that doesn’t allow me to tell my story the way I want, and they’ve released a fix for that.
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the good thing about 4e errata is that it’s built into the character builder updates, so your players will have their errata’d powers if they use the character builder. It happens in the background so you don’t have to worry about it… it’s mostly unbalanced powers and magic items that get the errata anyway, so you’ll never notice, now that you got a ddi subscription.
….until, of course, you start running peeps who don’t have DDI and play by the books. Then it’s a nightmare
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I second that. Most of the errata fixes stuff so optimizers can’t break things. Not a problem for our group.
I ignored errata until I broke down and bought a DDI subscription for 4E. Before that, I just stuck with the books I owned.
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