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Post Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:03 pm 
 

The PHB Errata page:
http://www.acaeum.com/library/errata_phb.html

... says that corrections 15A and 38B were corrected in the Eighth print. However, my Seventh print PHB also includes those corrections. (Yes, my Seventh print really is a Seventh print, with the wizard logo & white flyleaves.)

Is this an already-known mistake on the errata page?

Alternatively, are there any known Seventh prints of the PHB that *don't* corrections 15A and 38B? Is this an as-of-yet-unrealized printing variation? (I doubt it, but it can't hurt to ask.)


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Post Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:06 pm 
 

I actually just changed that in the last update.  We received an e-mail (since deleted, and I forget from whom) from someone who had a Seventh and Eighth print PHB, and the correction only appeared in his Eighth.

So I'm guessing there's two Seventh prints!  I'd be interested to hear from folks with Seventh prints, to nail this one down.

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Post Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:12 pm 
 

My 7th has the 1/2-O stats as 3/17, and the missile fire adjustments as well.

  

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Post Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:19 pm 
 

The two seventh prints that I have, one with the flipped artwork on page 108 and the other without, have that stat and sentence corrections you mentioned.

Someone page Deimos, STAT!

BTW, there was this thread from a while back about all the seventh prints. I thought there was another, but I can't seem to locate it...I'm getting confused with that MM 3rd and 4th print mess

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Post Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:50 pm 
 

An error on the Errata Page?  :D


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Post Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:12 am 
 

I have two seventh prints.  One has the errata corrections made (we'll call it 7b) and the guy with the torch walking down the stairs on the left of the mouth on p. 108.  The other (7a) does not.

In looking at the books overall, trying to see in what other ways they differ, I note that the yellow angled "Advanced D&D" banner is markedly darker and more red in 7b, and that the margins on the bottom of all pages is larger, maybe by as much as a centimeter. In fact, now that I look at it, the entire corrected version is a bigger book.  Ok, you made me dig out a ruler.  The only one I can find at the moment is my kid's wooden school ruler with inches only, and 7a's pages are just over 10 3/4", while 7b's are 10 15/16. This is why the margins on the bottom are smaller - that extra real estate is all on the bottom of the page.  The covers are similarly different in size.


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Post Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:17 pm 
 

misterspock wrote:The two seventh prints that I have, one with the flipped artwork on page 108 and the other without, have that stat and sentence corrections you mentioned.

Someone page Deimos, STAT!

:lol:  What, no lemur signal?

I'll tear into this at some point, but probably not until the weekend.  (That's what weekends are for, right?)  Unless you sort it out in the meantime, as lucyjoyce has foolishly admitted to having both versions...

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Post Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:32 pm 
 

deimos3428 wrote:I'll tear into this at some point, but probably not until the weekend.


I hope not literally this time. :wink:


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