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Do you or dont you?

It’s an interesting question really because this doesn’t just affect you as a gamer but it affects the whole group, if one of you decides to run with the errata then all players should really run with the errata otherwise you’re not all singing from the same hymn sheet (anyone playing bullshit bingo can mark off another square), ideally the errata / no errata call should be down to your GM/DM, and to be brutally honest errata IS important it balances the rule set it clarifies rules that are perhaps not clear and on the whole makes things run alot more smoothly, with the internet being so easy now for most people to get onto (work, home, libraries, internet cafe’s) it’s an absolute breeze to upgrade and use the new rules.

So having decided that we’re running the errata, how do you guys keep a track of whether a change has been applied to a rule, power, item etc – do you chave lots of cut outs all over your treasured books, do you write footnotes alongside things saying check errata? Personally I use “post it” type page markers little sticky notes that can be peeled off without leaving the glue behind use them to identify a rule change, then I can grab the trusty errata at that point – genius no?

Anyways, I guess I should mention what really made me post about errata is that Wizards have made another 4th edition errata available to download from their site, being a nice guy I’ll link it here so you dont have to do loads of searching to find it. ERRATA see a nice big link for you to follow, that link takes you to the download for “everything” in one pdf, alternatively you can download just the errata for the relevant manuals, for these downloads here’s another CLICKY both will open another browser window.

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That’s me done, stick a fork in me

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I got that Friday feeling, and for us lucky people in the UK, we have a long weekend to look forward to.
Hopefully going to spend some of my weekend in front of my computer starting to convert Retuirn to the Temple of Elemental Evil to 4th edition, and that in my thinking is going to take some time.
I need to look at the legal standing on that as to whether I can share my notes etc on here, so if we have any legal types that know whether my notes, not the original adventure is acceptable to share or not, get in touch with us.
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Have a great weekend.

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A review of the Players Handbook, as Wizard state it is one of the “core rulebooks”

First thing to note is that I’m not going to review in great extent about the ruleset in this post, thats best left for another day – this is to review the book itself, the quality and to help you decide whether it’s something you want to part with your very hard earned cash for.

Lets open with the pretty obvious question:

Do I really need it?

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I’ve spent a bit of cash recently, so I reckon i’ll need some reviews writing.

Like I said previously I’ve been focussing on 4th Edition alot recently so that’s as good a place as any to start reviewing.

In the near future I’m going to be converting Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil to 4th edition too, so I’ll post my notews etc onto the forums, so those of you who have the adventure can get the encounters changes etc (should you want them) obviously I’m not going to post the maps and the text as that’ll be a breach of copyright etc but my work is my work eh!

Anyways short post today but more to come soon.

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