I see in some very old forum posts that most errata for core books is supposed to find it's way into the PDF versions as new print runs are performed on printed materials.
I spent some time re-downloading items from my library and did a quick audit of the Player Core and GM core... I am seeing zero changes included from the official errata list on the copy in my downloads folder.
I was curious if this is a technical issue I should take up with customer support or if this is a known "We don't do that here" thing (as in, errata does not find its way into PDF versions).
I am starting up a campaign with a known Rules Lawyer and I am going to have to print out the lists of errata to reference live if I cannot get them incorporated into my PDFs. I suppose I could take the time to manually edit the PDFs or slap digital sticky notes in there, but if the work has already been done for me...
That's how things used to be done, but it took too long for errata to get released that way.
Paizo then announced quarterly errata... Just before the OGL crisis meant they needed to shift to doing remasters.
For the moment, we have occasional errata, with PDFs getting updated on reprints/remasters.
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So, if I re-downloaded my books, and errata is not included, I should contact CS?
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Huh, I would have guessed there would have been a reprint since October of 2023 when I purchased them. Is there a way for us to see if a book has been reprinted or not?
Generally books will only get errata into PDFs when a new print run of the physical book is publishedWow that is disappointing. And extremely surprising to hear that you're still on the first print run of the first Remaster Core books.
I've just this week decided to get my friends and I back into Pathfinder since 2020, and was very happy to see I'm two years after the Remaster, expecting to buy actual up to date errata'ed books (or at the very least PDFs), as that first errata list for Player Core is huge.
The flip side of that is that Paizo stocking up on the books in the initial print run (before tariffs hit) means they probably didn't have to adjust prices to reflect the additional costs yet.
How soon stuff sells out depends on how fast folks are buying, so it's not something that's entirely in Paizo's control.
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There are also instances in which something sells out so fast on its initial print run that a second printing is ordered before the designers have had the time to compile errors, determine solutions, implement those in the document and track them independently for changelogs and errata postings, and run the whole thing through editing and approvals. The errata and book revision processes run independently from supply chain and operations, and sometimes it's more important to maintain stock on a title than ensure every errata makes it into the next printing. In many of these cases, if the print files didn't change, we don't denote it as a second printing to prevent confusion, even though it technically came in a second run of the original files.
In this case, however, if you ordered a copy of Pathfinder Player Core today, it would be a first printing, so the only errata that exists for it is a separate document. When the second printing replaces the first in the supply chain is when we'd update the PDF.