Is there going to be an errata to for Book of the dead to make it Remaster Compatible?

[something random]

Is there going to be an errata to for Book of the dead to make it Remaster Compatible?

[Blave]

Doesn't seem likely. They might adjust a thing here and there if necessary. But I don't really think there's too much need for that, if any.

[something random]

Book of the Dead makes numerous references to: alignment; positive and negative energy, the necromancy school, none of which are in the game now. Also it references multiple spells that have been renamed or are not in the player core at all.
Examples from the Hallow Necromancer Archetype of things that would need removed/changed
The requirements of good alignment and able to cast at least 1 Necromancy spell.
The Hallowed Initiate can grant call the grave which is not in Player Core.
One of its feats adds chill touch, death ward, disrupt undead, disrupting weapons, holy cascade, magic stone, and sunburst.
Of which only Sunburst is in player core under those names.
Chill Touch, Disrupt Undead and Disrupting Weapons all have different names and Death Ward, Holy Cascade and Magic Stone.

[Xenocrat]

The purpose of remastering is to have useable products they can still sell if they get threatened with more OGL litigation. Nothing in the Book of the Dead is important enough for that.

Everything not remastered is still a perfectly good product. They won’t do anything else with it, but that’s the case with vast percentages of things published in those books anyway.

[Finoan]

I'm sure there will be some minor errata. Though most of the naming changes are pretty simple. Things like Basic Undead Benefits referencing positive and negative effects instead of vitality and void. Or having Immunity to Death Effects using Phantasmal Killer as an example instead of Vision of Death.

I don't know when that errata will happen. Pretty much all of it is simple enough to do ourselves just using the transition guidelines already established.

Edit: Kudos to something random for asking about errata to the existing book instead of asking about a replacement Remastered book.

[Ascalaphus]

Well, at some point their current print run is going to run out. When that's coming into view, Paizo needs to decide to either do a second print run, or make plans for a new book for the niche.

If they do a new print run, I expect they'll convert it to remaster rules. While there's plenty of references to positive/negative/evil in it, I don't think it'll be that difficult to revise. Positive/negative is just a matter of replacing words with new words. Evil is a bit more work, but still pretty clear how you'd convert it. Overall, the conversion is much easier than a book about law/chaos creatures would have been.

something random wrote:

Is there going to be an errata to for Book of the dead to make it Remaster Compatible?

I would say that right now the book is "compatible", about as compatible as PF1 books were with D&D 3.5 back then. They're not exactly the same thing, but they can be used together without too much trouble.

If you run into a spell that hasn't been printed in remaster, or been renamed, you can just look it up in Archives of Nethys.

If you run into something that required good alignment, it's a bit trickier, but the GM could decide that requirement is now something like these:
- "must be sanctified holy"
- "must be able to sanctify holy, but doesn't have to actually do it"
- "must not follow anything that allows you to sanctify unholy"
- "must not be sanctified unholy"

[Unicore]

I would be shocked if they are going to update or fully errata any old books to be publishable under the ORC license instead of the OGL. The amount of work necessary to go through it page by page and evaluate if every name, creature, spell, or idea referenced or implied is fully a remastered, Paizo property, or tied to an OGL concept that would violate the ORC license is a monumental task that would involve having to have many, very expensive sets of eyes comb the text, and for what? Paizo can continue to print and sell past products that are already published under the OGL license. The first ORC AP has only just now been released, and 7 dooms is an OGL product. 7 dooms will never be officially updated to fit under an ORC license, nor will old setting or rules books.

They might get minor errata to help players use that content with the core rule books, but that is still a lot more work for Paizo than it is for the community around PF2 to just post examples and questions on these message boards and maybe eventually let that drive an errata FAQ.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah the actual usability of the books remains so high that it seems like a lot of wasted effort to remaster them. Paizo has always been much more interested in publishing new content than losing time in the minutia of old content.

[Perpdepog]

I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually got some form of errata for BoD, there are some genuine errors in the book that could do with clarifying, but I don't think it's at all high on Paizo's list of concerns. Like everyone else has pointed out, most of the issues are simple enough to fix that a rules forum question is sufficient.

[Kelseus]

Perpdepog wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually got some form of errata for BoD, there are some genuine errors in the book that could do with clarifying, but I don't think it's at all high on Paizo's list of concerns. Like everyone else has pointed out, most of the issues are simple enough to fix that a rules forum question is sufficient.

I would expect there to be a slow unofficial errata as things from BOD get reprinted in future products.

[Finoan]

Why would things in Book of the Dead be getting reprinted in future products? They already exist in Book of the Dead. I would expect that future products would reference the content from Book of the Dead - not reprint it.

[PossibleCabbage]

It feels like if you're trying to make a character with Book of the Dead options work with the remaster rules, all of the changes you would need to make are within the realm of "calls that the GM is able to make."

There are probably some pre-remaster archetypes that will get reprinted in remaster books, similar to how there's two version of Jalmeri Heavenseeker since the Impossible Lands book was a natural fit for it, but it's not something they will do just in order to have done it.

[Perpdepog]

Finoan wrote:

Why would things in Book of the Dead be getting reprinted in future products? They already exist in Book of the Dead. I would expect that future products would reference the content from Book of the Dead - not reprint it.

Agreed. There's also the issue that two of the biggest errors I recall from BoD, the skeleton ancestry having no native way to gain the greater undead benefits, and the Hallowed Necromancer archetype requiring expert in a skill at level 2--something which, IIRC, no caster can achieve--are strongly tied to some pretty niche options which I don't really see being reprinted.

[ShogiDude]

Unicore wrote:

I would be shocked if they are going to update or fully errata any old books to be publishable under the ORC license instead of the OGL. The amount of work necessary to go through it page by page and evaluate if every name, creature, spell, or idea referenced or implied is fully a remastered, Paizo property, or tied to an OGL concept that would violate the ORC license is a monumental task that would involve having to have many, very expensive sets of eyes comb the text, and for what? Paizo can continue to print and sell past products that are already published under the OGL license. The first ORC AP has only just now been released, and 7 dooms is an OGL product. 7 dooms will never be officially updated to fit under an ORC license, nor will old setting or rules books.

They might get minor errata to help players use that content with the core rule books, but that is still a lot more work for Paizo than it is for the community around PF2 to just post examples and questions on these message boards and maybe eventually let that drive an errata FAQ.

I agree with your assessment. However, I switched to Pathfinder from D&D specifically for the ORC License, and have made the decision NOT to buy any OGL content. I would love to buy Rage of Elements and Book of the Dead, but won't because of their OGL license.