So no, they aren't going to replace or refund, so they aren't going to admit to any product defects, at least not in any significant way.Īt first they tried to get away with some stealth errata via Sage Advice, but everyone hated that. Hardcopy game books that need to be completely reprinted to make corrections, not computer programs that can be patched by some code. These are game books, not cars, where you could die if something goes wrong. Why, you demand a replacement of course! Or a refund if you cannot get a replacement. Well, aside from their sheer arrogance and not wanting to admit they could ever do anything wrong, errata is a confession that they sold you a defective product.Īnd what do you do when you realize you have purchased a defective product? (Ah! The joy of the 10 page MegaTraveller errata pamphlet featuring critical charts completely left out of the rules books, and pages of line by line text corrections!) Then again, I remember when errata was something you had to send an SASE to the company to get, or, maybe, if it was really significant and the company was really customer friendly, they made available to FLGS to hand out to people. Of course that was back in AOHell days, when getting errata off the internet was a chore. Or, you know, it is a typo because someone's finger slipped up a row when typing "ghoul", but TSR doesn't make mistakes, so screw you peasants! Instead you got things like the "thoul" in BECMI.Ī thoul is a creature that is part hobgoblin, part troll, and part ghoul. It basically took them completely leaving out entire pages for TSR to actually post errata. I think that part, is more a problem of insufficient archiving back then, with so many different variants of the wotc archive.Īnd I think perhaps it should be noted the extent to which most game companies REALLY hate the very concept of errata.Īt first it was suggested that WotC wasn't even going to issue errata for 3E/3.5, much the way TSR virtually never issued errata for AD&D. Those last 2 have links, one to gleemax and one to boards1, but neither are findable on wayback. Searched up the various mentions of the Chris Perkins quote.
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