#585080
Back in the old days, the Glossary included all errata (or, as Decipher called it, "revised texts"). In fact, since cards were rarely reprinted and there were no virtual cards, the Glossary was often the only place where errata could be found. It looked like this:
Eventually, due to the development of the virtual errata file and, later, the errata master changelog and the errata database, these Glossary inserts were removed. (The original idea was to move the errata to a separate appendix, but this didn't happen for several years, when @jrch completed the curent changelog.)
Now it seems like things might be swinging the other direction again. Collectors often want to play with their physical cards, not with slightly-updated printouts. But TMP Remastered included several dozen errata, nearly all of them minor, but many of them affecting some of collectors' most valuable cards. Rules has been more proactive about issuing "clarifying errata" (like Decipher used to do occasionally) which clarify how a card works without changing its function.
I don't expect this trend to stop, and I get little sense that the community wants it to. Yet collectors will still want to play with their physical dang cards. (I know I do!)
One possible way of helping to accommodate that is to put errata text back in the Glossary. That way, you can play your physical copies, but anyone armed with a Glossary can flip through and find any updated text (should the question arise during a game) without having to go to the card database or scroll through the virtual errata file. Maintenance would not be a concern, because we would set it up to automatically update when the database notices new errata.
On the other hand, putting errata back in the Glossary would mean a lot more words in the Glossary, and it might be better to just promote the errata changelog more heavily as the separate repository of text-based errata. We could encourage T.D.'s to print that document out, and maybe link to it from Glossary entries.
The Rules Committee was tepid about putting errata back in the Glossary, I'm a bit tepid myself, and don't particularly want to write the computer code for it unless there's real demand for it. What do you think?
Eventually, due to the development of the virtual errata file and, later, the errata master changelog and the errata database, these Glossary inserts were removed. (The original idea was to move the errata to a separate appendix, but this didn't happen for several years, when @jrch completed the curent changelog.)
Now it seems like things might be swinging the other direction again. Collectors often want to play with their physical cards, not with slightly-updated printouts. But TMP Remastered included several dozen errata, nearly all of them minor, but many of them affecting some of collectors' most valuable cards. Rules has been more proactive about issuing "clarifying errata" (like Decipher used to do occasionally) which clarify how a card works without changing its function.
I don't expect this trend to stop, and I get little sense that the community wants it to. Yet collectors will still want to play with their physical dang cards. (I know I do!)
One possible way of helping to accommodate that is to put errata text back in the Glossary. That way, you can play your physical copies, but anyone armed with a Glossary can flip through and find any updated text (should the question arise during a game) without having to go to the card database or scroll through the virtual errata file. Maintenance would not be a concern, because we would set it up to automatically update when the database notices new errata.
On the other hand, putting errata back in the Glossary would mean a lot more words in the Glossary, and it might be better to just promote the errata changelog more heavily as the separate repository of text-based errata. We could encourage T.D.'s to print that document out, and maybe link to it from Glossary entries.
The Rules Committee was tepid about putting errata back in the Glossary, I'm a bit tepid myself, and don't particularly want to write the computer code for it unless there's real demand for it. What do you think?
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"We pledge our loyalty to the Glossary from now until death."
"Then receive this reward from the Glossary. May it keep you strong."
~Iron Prime