Any update for the PRD?


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Last update was on May 25th 2016, it's been 1 year and a half since it was updated. Ultimate Intrigue, Bestiary 6 and Villain Codex haven't been added... and Ultimate Wilderness come out next month.

Does Paizo have plans to update the PRD?

Silver Crusade

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Yes.


Just copying and pasting the information should be a pretty quick job. My best guess is that there is a total revamp of the site in the works. Maybe with some added functionality?

Shadow Lodge

There is so much more to updating a reference website than copying and pasting text.

Also, what the toothy bag said.


TOZ wrote:

There is so much more to updating a reference website than copying and pasting text.

Also, what the toothy bag said.

Not really. Not if you're using a half decent framework.


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Melkiador wrote:
TOZ wrote:

There is so much more to updating a reference website than copying and pasting text.

Also, what the toothy bag said.

Not really. Not if you're using a half decent framework.

What about paizo's site/framework seems half decent to you? I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the PRD is 100% manual HTML input for the page content. It would explain some of the formatting errors I've seen with it over the years.

Even if they did have a framework for easier input, links still need to be inserted, and it's not feasible to do that automatically (as an autolinker would get things wrong a lot).

Shadow Lodge

Melkiador wrote:
Not really. Not if you're using a half decent framework.

Ah, the assumptions in that statement.

Silver Crusade

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Despite being static HTML it still runs circles around the main Paizo website as far as mobile Ux is concerned.


TOZ wrote:
Melkiador wrote:
TOZ wrote:
There is so much more to updating a reference website than copying and pasting text.
Not really. Not if you're using a half decent framework.
Ah, the assumptions in that statement.

Very true, Mr. TOZ!


At this point, they would have had the time to do it over again from scratch with a framework though. Which is why I suspected they are doing an overhaul at the top of the conversation.


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Or it could mean that Chris is the only one left at Paizo that does PRD things since Liz left, and she has/had a ton of other things on her plate higher-up on the list than updating the PRD.


skizzerz wrote:
Or it could mean that Chris is the only one left at Paizo that does PRD things since Liz left, and she has/had a ton of other things on her plate higher-up on the list than updating the PRD.

Ah, the assumptions in that statement


Melkiador wrote:
skizzerz wrote:
Or it could mean that Chris is the only one left at Paizo that does PRD things since Liz left, and she has/had a ton of other things on her plate higher-up on the list than updating the PRD.
Ah, the assumptions in that statement

If you check the website feedback forum for a recentish thread on PRD updating, Chris states roughly the above. My link fu is weak or I would.


Java Man wrote:
Melkiador wrote:
skizzerz wrote:
Or it could mean that Chris is the only one left at Paizo that does PRD things since Liz left, and she has/had a ton of other things on her plate higher-up on the list than updating the PRD.
Ah, the assumptions in that statement
If you check the website feedback forum for a recentish thread on PRD updating, Chris states roughly the above. My link fu is weak or I would.

If so, then someone could have just said that without getting all snippy.


My apologies if my statement was perceived as anything but a statement of fact. I sincerely intended nothing else.


Sorry Java. Wasn't referring to you at all. You were actually helpful to the conversation. Probably the first person in this thread to give useful information. Thank you.


I guess the PRD means 3 useful things for me, 2 of which are probably most useful for the general gamer: (1) new books getting entered; (2) errata getting collected all in 1 place; and (3) the ability to know whether a newer printing (presumably encompassing errata) has come out.

I'm actually most interested in the 3rd point, as I have no way of knowing if, say, there has been only 1 printing of Occult Adventures, and I'm safe just buying that. [I prefer to have the most recent material if buying a hardcover, rather than having to print out errata.]

So if by some wild chance Chris is reading this thread...point 3 should take little to no time, but would mean a lot to people like me wanting to buy more product. As it is, I don't know past that date in 2016 if there have been more recent printings than noted on the PRD page.


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So, any chance the PRD might get updated any time soon? Several recent books are missing that would be useful to have, but the most egregious issue in my point of view is that the Ultimate Equipment errata is still missing which is also problematic for PFS as a lot of stuff was changed in that errata. I understand that Paizo's employees are busybusybusy, but it's really been quite some time:

PRD wrote:
Note as of 5/19/2016: The errata released for the second printing of Ultimate Equipment has not yet been added. This update is expected to be available after our annual convention, PaizoCon, held May 27-30, 2016.


Zaister wrote:

So, any chance the PRD might get updated any time soon? Several recent books are missing that would be useful to have, but the most egregious issue in my point of view is that the Ultimate Equipment errata is still missing which is also problematic for PFS as a lot of stuff was changed in that errata. I understand that Paizo's employees are busybusybusy, but it's really been quite some time:

PRD wrote:
Note as of 5/19/2016: The errata released for the second printing of Ultimate Equipment has not yet been added. This update is expected to be available after our annual convention, PaizoCon, held May 27-30, 2016.

I agree w/ your concerns, but now I have a ? you might be able to answer. Based on that 5/19/16 note, would you read that to mean that the 2nd printing of UE actually includes the errata? Or would you read that to mean even the 2nd printing has errata?? I hope it's the 1st scenario, b/c otherwise I'll be even more upset about the whole issue.


BenS wrote:
Zaister wrote:

So, any chance the PRD might get updated any time soon? Several recent books are missing that would be useful to have, but the most egregious issue in my point of view is that the Ultimate Equipment errata is still missing which is also problematic for PFS as a lot of stuff was changed in that errata. I understand that Paizo's employees are busybusybusy, but it's really been quite some time:

PRD wrote:
Note as of 5/19/2016: The errata released for the second printing of Ultimate Equipment has not yet been added. This update is expected to be available after our annual convention, PaizoCon, held May 27-30, 2016.
I agree w/ your concerns, but now I have a ? you might be able to answer. Based on that 5/19/16 note, would you read that to mean that the 2nd printing of UE actually includes the errata? Or would you read that to mean even the 2nd printing has errata?? I hope it's the 1st scenario, b/c otherwise I'll be even more upset about the whole issue.

They were referring to the errata which were incorporated into the 2nd printing. The PRD is still showing the 1st edition.


BenS wrote:
I'm actually most interested in the 3rd point, as I have no way of knowing if, say, there has been only 1 printing of Occult Adventures, and I'm safe just buying that. [I prefer to have the most recent material if buying a hardcover, rather than having to print out errata.]

Ialways use this page to see which books have been reprinted recently. At least to determine which have had the full, incorporate-errata form of reprint.

(So by that page, the answer to your query is that Occult Adventures hasn’t yet had that treatment and there are only “first printings” in existence).


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@ Gisher, thank you for confirming that. I'm glad I sought out the 2nd edition, which includes the errata not on the PRD.

@ Steve Geddes, yes, thank you, I used that page myself when I finally started buying PF hardcovers this past 6 months. However, I'm not quite as confident as you are that everything on there is up-to-date, seeing as how the last update remains 5/19/16.

In other words, they very well could have done another printing of X and just not got around to updating that page. Similar to what's going on w/ the PRD in general.


BenS wrote:

@ Steve Geddes, yes, thank you, I used that page myself when I finally started buying PF hardcovers this past 6 months. However, I'm not quite as confident as you are that everything on there is up-to-date, seeing as how the last update remains 5/19/16.

In other words, they very well could have done another printing of X and just not got around to updating that page. Similar to what's going on w/ the PRD in general.

Ah, I see. I’ve always assumed that part of the “release an updated printing” process included posting a link to that page and that the file was generated when the book was ordered from the printer (then a simple link added once the new version starts shipping).

I don’t have any actual knowledge of the process though, so I guess there could well be a delay the way we sometimes see with the PRD. I hadn’t really considered that possibility.


The Errata Documents are posted when the new printing is released. So that page is completely up to date.

My memory is that the Advanced Class Guide errata was released somewhat before the 2nd printing due to the large numbers of errors that needed correcting, but that would be an exception.

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