Not to sound too pedantic about it, but is there any insight as to when the Errata page is going to be updated with any errata for the Guns & Gears sourcebook?
I mean, it seems a little odd that the Dark Archive sourcebook already has errata up and it's been out less than a month, and Guns & Gears is closing in on having been out for a year.
No. No there is not.
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Typically, books have to wait for a reprint cycle before errata goes up. Dark Archive kind of bucked the cycle because there were some game-balance issues that were found after the book was sent to the printer but before it was shipped out, so it had an early errata drop to address those since the errata update could be easily appended to the normal release tasks.
Guns & Gears is also looking at a longer window because it sold out so fast that we had to do an emergency print order for additional copies at like 5pm on a Friday when there just wasn't time to do an errata pass, so under the current schedule its errata timeline is more like what you'd expect from a third printing than a second.
Since the errata drops require coordination from at least 5 different departments it's tricky to move timelines unless you happen to get lucky and can add them to tasks that are already underway like what happened with Dark Archive. I'm hoping the company will get a new errata process in place in the not-too-distant future that will give us more flexibility in rolling these out, but that's a process flow decision that we don't really have much control over at the production level for main line rulebooks.
Typically, books have to wait for a reprint cycle before errata goes up. Dark Archive kind of bucked the cycle because there were some game-balance issues that were found after the book was sent to the printer but before it was shipped out, so it had an early errata drop to address those since the errata update could be easily appended to the normal release tasks.
Guns & Gears is also looking at a longer window because it sold out so fast that we had to do an emergency print order for additional copies at like 5pm on a Friday when there just wasn't time to do an errata pass, so under the current schedule its errata timeline is more like what you'd expect from a third printing than a second.
Since the errata drops require coordination from at least 5 different departments it's tricky to move timelines unless you happen to get lucky and can add them to tasks that are already underway like what happened with Dark Archive. I'm hoping the company will get a new errata process in place in the not-too-distant future that will give us more flexibility in rolling these out, but that's a process flow decision that we don't really have much control over at the production level for main line rulebooks.
I did not realize there was that much involved in it. I mean, I had some idea, but I was still falling way short. Thank you for the update.
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Guns & Gears is also looking at a longer window because it sold out so fast that we had to do an emergency print order for additional copies at like 5pm on a Friday when there just wasn't time to do an errata pass, so under the current schedule its errata timeline is more like what you'd expect from a third printing than a second.
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Good news that the book was so popular.