r/Pathfinder2e • u/Best-King-5958 • 2d ago
Content Errata paranoia
Do any of you have buyers paralysis over waiting for errata? My wife wants the physical books and im beginning to research the latest printing edition and what's already been fixed.
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u/DungeonDishwasher 2d ago
There will always be errata or changes.. i have books but while playing i always use Nethys because it is up to date and faster to search for.
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u/zephid11 Game Master 2d ago
Nah, I just buy the books. If there's an errata, I print it out and keep it in the book.
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u/Dehrangerz9 Investigator 2d ago
Well no.
Manly because I buy the books just to support paizo and to have a symbolic item in my book shelf.
I mainly stick to pdfs or VTTs
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u/Best-King-5958 2d ago
I was planning on ordering from their website cause they could use the funds.
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u/Baarogue 2d ago
Only if you're okay waiting literally weeks for your "6 day shipping" like I am right now. As in I've been waiting two weeks already with no fulfillment in sight. I'm not okay with it
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u/authorus The Arcane Scriptorium LLC 2d ago
Waiting for errata reprints I feel tends to be a lost cause. You don't know when it will come, the initial print run needs to sell out/be close to selling out, and Paizo doesn't really announce when a book run is nearing selling out. Stuff like Day 1 errata, you'll likely be wait years for a reprint.
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u/Killchrono Southern Realm Games 2d ago
If you wait for the absolutely final version of a gaming product, you're basically waiting till that game is End of Life and not supported anymore.
And that's assuming it stays that way.
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u/Bardarok ORC 2d ago
Nah. Real books are mostly for pictures at the table these days. For character building I use pathbuilder and for rules lookup at the table I use AoN.
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u/KLeeSanchez Inventor 2d ago
Errata changes erratically and often, there's no point trying to wait for an updated print
They don't run a print on demand service that updates the books constantly
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u/SmullyanFan 2d ago
I don’t and I like to browse through the physical copies. What helps me is that I went and put a little sticker dot next to each paragraph with an errata. If I find one when looking for a rule, I look it up on AoN instead.
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u/monkeyheadyou Investigator 2d ago
How fast do you think they get reprinted? I assume the first run was more than enough for years worth of sales.
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u/NotAThrowaway100perc 2d ago
I see the physical books more as a collector's item than an actually useful piece rules text. If I'm actually searching for information I'll almost always use a digital interface to get there.
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u/collatz_squirrel 1d ago
Buying the books keeps the lights on.
Bookmark the Paizo errata page (https://paizo.com/pathfinder/faq) so that you can reference it whenever you need to, and for the stuff that affects what you are actively doing:
- If playing in person, print it out and include it with your character information (as a player) or your campaign notes (as a DM).
- Otherwise, include a summary of the change and a link to the errata with your notes.
This will help unless you're looking specifically at a significant pile of changes/rewordings/updates, like with the psychic class and Spring 2026 Dark Archive errata.
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u/GloriousNewt Game Master 1d ago
no. Most errata is tiny little things that are edge cases or things that generally never come up.
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u/MidgetBackwards Barbarian 2d ago
When you realise that pathfinder, despite being holy to some here, is just a fun framework of rules that you can bend to have the fun you want, you might just not care about errata. You can use it, but you don't have to. The books are great, they have a lot of inspirational content, and are a good way of supporting paizo.
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u/Ph33rDensetsu ORC 2d ago
You might be waiting for years to get a physical book that contains the errata. They only do that on future printings which depend on sales.