White Wolf Publishing

So, there have been various threads recently talking about how irritating it is to have to constantly go back and forth between the released books and the errata. Because either you're not sure what stuff is and isn't errataed, or for stuff like MoEP: Sidereals, even though most of the charms are errataed, half the errata is full replacement, half is 'change this bit.

Having this problem myself, and being the resident Exalted expert in the current Dark Ages: Exalted game I'm in (was oWoD multisplat game, now we're Exalts and Earth is getting more aspects of Creation as time goes on), I wanted to sort it out. Now, some people are working on compilations of all of the charms for each splat, with the errata included, however the downsides of those are that they're a huge amount of work, and once you've done that huge amount of work, the fact that it contains the full text of charms from the books means that there's issues with sharing that work with other Exalted players who could really use it.

I think I have found an at least partial solution.

Foxit PDF reader has fairly good commenting facilities; you put the comment marker somewhere, you have various options for what the marker looks like, then you enter the comment into the text box. You can view the comment by doubleclicking the comment (opening the text box, allowing you to edit it, and reposition or resize the text box), or by mouseover-ing the comment marker (though that only works if the comment can display below where your mouse is). Importantly, said comments can be exported, and if they're then imported into an identical PDF, the comment markers will appear in the same places throughout the PDF (though the resizing and repositioning of the expanded text boxes appears to be lost).

Now, I am hoping that I am okay to share these exported comments, because they contain only what is in the Scroll of Errata (plus occasional comments by me where there's obvious errors in the Scroll, notes that certain sections may be easier to read in the Scroll of errata, important authorial clarifications, and other things like that; said comments are clearly distinct from the errata) which is itself available for free, because I have included a list of the credits of those who worked on the errata with all of them, and because the errata is already repeated in other publically available places like the Exalted Wiki.

If White Wolf don't want me to share this, then I will take this stuff down as soon as they ask me to. But I'm hoping that won't be the case.

Now, this is still an imperfect solution; it's PDF only, Foxit Reader only (I had a look at Acrobat Reader, but its commenting function seems much less comprehensive, plus Foxit is what I use day to day) which also means its Windows only AFAIK. There can also be issues if the PDFs are not identical; I think some of the stuff I've got is the much older DriveThruRPG style of PDFs, and the page numbers may be different to more modern ones.

Therefore, you should still download the Scroll of Errata, both because there are times when it is easier to read the errata there, but more importantly because it shows White Wolf that errata is important to us. You should also still thank this post to get us PDFs (and hopefully PoDs) with the errata fully in them.

But these comment files, which I've been finding fairly handy in the game I'm in, should hopefully be useful for others. I've not done everything yet; I did all the stuff we were particularly using in the game I'm in, then the remaining Manuals of Exalted Power. I do intend to cover everything, but I figure what I've done so far is a good start, and a worthwhile level of stuff to share with people.

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Here are the comments files. The 'may2012'/'june2012' in their names is just for my own use, to keep track of when I've exported the comments.

Main/original versions
(That which I've made originally, using my copies of the PDFs, in most cases best to download these, then if they don't match up look for an alternate version)

Exalted Second Edition Core

Manual of Exalted Power: Dragonblooded
Manual of Exalted Power: Lunars
Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals
Manual of Exalted Power: Abyssals
Manual of Exalted Power: Infernals
Manual of Exalted Power: Alchemicals

Graceful Wicked Masques: The Fair Folk

Glories of the Most High: Unconquered Sun
Glories of the Most High: Luna

Thosand Correct Actions

Ink Monkeys: Ultimate Collection (Done on the November 21st, 2010 version)
Ink Monkeys: Ultimate Collection (Done on the January 6th, 2012 version; the one with added art)

Dreams of the First Age: Lords of Creation
(Errata of the errataed PDF, mostly just the addition of the Dawn and Dusk keywords, and the clarification of the Eclipse Anima power for the two charms that work similarly)

Glories of the Most High: Maidens of Destiny

The Broken-Winged Crane

Masters of Jade

Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of the Monk
Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of the Monk — The Imperfect Lotus
Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of Kings
Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of Fallen Races
Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of Exalts


Books of Sorcery: Wonders of the Lost Age
Books of Sorcery: White and Black Treatises
Books of Sorcery: Oadenol's Codex
Books of Sorcery: Roll of Glorious Divininininity I: Gods and Elementals
Books of Sorcery: Roll of Glorious Divinity II: Ghosts and Demons

Compass of Terrestrial Directions: South

Compass of Celestial Directions: The Wyld

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All the errata above in one zip file (includes the alternate versions below)

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Alternate Versions


Exalted Second Edition Core — all comments moved forwards three pages (for the most recent version of the Core, the one that has hyperlinks and so forth in it)

Manual of Exalted Power: Dragonblooded — all comments moved forwards one page.

Manual of Exalted Power: Lunars — all comments moved forwards one page.

Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals — All comments moved forwards one page.

Manual of Exalted Power: Abyssals — all comments moved forwards one page.


Manual of Exalted Power:Infernals — all comments moved backwards one page.

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To load them into a file, go up to the menu, look for 'comments' or 'comments management' (it'll either be it's own menu or subsection of the single drop-down menu), and pick 'import comments data', then browse to the file and pick it. The comments should then appear in your PDF. They may take a moment to propagate, and there may be a moment of loading for them when you later open the PDF. You need to save the PDF with comments included for them to show up next time you use it.

If you are finding the comments are in the right place but on the wrong page, it's possible to edit the FDF files, and change just the page number without changing anything else; if anyone has this problem, tell me and I can run you through it/edit it myself (depending on how many changes are needed).

My plans for the future of this is to firstly cover all of the existing books current errata. (Edit: Done!) Then I'd like to add authorial clarifications, and other steath/forum errata that isn't currently covered. Finally, once all of that is done, I'm thinking of adding other useful information, like adding the names and locations all of the charms outside the MoEPs/core to the charm trees in those books, so you don't have to wonder whether that particular Infernals charm was in Ink Monkeys, Broken Winged Crane, or Scroll of the Monk 2: Monk Harder.

Things I could use the forums help on: Pointing out mistakes. Due to the sheer level of copying and pasting I did on this, there will be a few mistakes, a few places where the Scroll of Errata's hyphenation, strange capitalisation, or extra spaces have been left in. If anything looks wrong, tell me and I'll fix it, ditto on the aforementioned 'on the wrong page' stuff. Also, at some point, I'll want people to hunt down all the authorial clarifications we have, so I can add those.

For some reason the last URL tag isn't working, if I delete it, it just turns to the next one up not working, so I've left it as is.



Cool, given the errata is someone elses work, wanted to make it clear I'm willing to take it down if required.

This is really awesome. It will certainly reduce the amount of ridiculous cross-referencing. Thanks!

(If you ever get to Graceful Wicked Masques you will have my undying loyalty)

Is there any chance you might do a fix for the latest version of the Core, the one with the hyperlinks and improved bookmarking? The comments are coming out in the wrong places when I try to use it. Also, I think I noticed that the comment for falling damage was duplicated.

Thank you for this. This is awesome!

Wow, this has really saved me a lot of hassle in designing a Sidereal character. You have my thanks for this awesome creation.

Oh, gosh, this is fantastic! You, sir, are a hero!

I assumed that was what you meant before you clarified, but thanks for making it absolutely clear.

If it's purely a case that the page numbering in the hyperlinked core is three later than that in the version I used, and that everything is otherwise positioned in the same place, then this version should solve that. Give it a try and let me know if they're in the right places (even if they're not, this at least gets them all on the right page, meaning it's a quicker job for me to reposition them, should that be needed).

All the comments for the Infernals book are one page past where they should be for me; they are in the right spot, just one page past where they should be. I've been looking for a way to edit fdf files, but it doesn't seem easy, could you possibly redo a file with the page numbers corrected?

I am also having a similar problem for Lunars, except the pages are one page before where they should be, right spot, but too early in the pdf.

I don't have any of the appropriate PDFs, so I can't use this. I have no idea well it works.

But if it works at all, it's pretty awesome. So I'm going to go advertise this on RPGnet.

Added Masters of Jade. Also, fuck flood detection.

Ahhhh, my thanks and my apologies. I think that's because it was during doing the Lunar errata that I realised I wanted to have the character generation errata in all the books, so did that everywhere, and forgot about the rest of the Lunar stuff.

I've gone through what you've done, looks good to me. I've made a few adjustments; adding extra linebreaks, turning the curlier apostrophes from the Scroll of errata into flat ones (as the curly ones show up like this "It 's alive! It' s alive!" rather than "It's alive", at least on my computer) and so forth. But thanks for a good spot and good work.

Would you like me to add you to the credits for that one?

I also notice you've adjusted the charmtrees with the appropriate arrows and gaps, I think once I've done everything I'll go back and do that with the rest, though I may make it more apparent on the places where there used to be a prereq that that's the case, as the white rectangles make it a bit too invisible otherwise.

Have uploaded my adjustments to your adjustments to replace the current version of that, and am just about to go and make edit: have just finished making a one page adjusted one for Incendius (and anyone else who needs it).

Eh, I've seen them across lots of PDFs, and generally removed them via find and replace in notepad++, so it's no biggie to have assumed the other way.



Just as 'Kiren' I assume?



Not sure. TBH, my preference would be for arrows that look arrow-y, but which don't match too closely to the ones in the book, so it's apparent that they are an errata change.



No idea. I've kept an uncommented copy of everything for this reason.

Yes, that would be fine.



Could make them a different colour to stand out.



I, unfortunately, didn't (but I could just download a new pdf from DriveThruRPG if I break the old one).

Have added the following:

Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of the Monk
Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of the Monk — The Imperfect Lotus
Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of Kings
Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of Fallen Races
Scrolls of Esoteric Wisdom: Scroll of Exalts


Books of Sorcery: Wonders of the Lost Age
Books of Sorcery: White and Black Treatises
Books of Sorcery: Oadenol's Codex
Books of Sorcery: Roll of Glorious Divininininity I: Gods and Elementals
Books of Sorcery: Roll of Glorious Divinity II: Ghosts and Demons

Compass of Terrestrial Directions: South

Compass of Celestial Directions: The Wyld

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As far as I am aware, that's everything other than Graceful Wicked Masques done. So, I'm now going to start the slow process of doing that (well, not right now. Right now, I'm going to finish my cider and go to bed, as it's half three in the morning), though I'll probably do a redo of Ink Monkeys for the version of that with art added first.

It'll take me a while to do GWM, but I've gotten into the swing of this, I know how to do it fairly quick, so it shouldn't be too long.

As before, I'm very much after people looking at what I've done and pointing out any errors; the sheer amount of copying and pasting, removing linebreaks and suchlike that I've done means that some errors will almost certainly have crept in.

I love you. Take that in whatever way you prefer.

Just gone through them a few work fine but my issues are thus!


Abyssals, Dragonbloods and Lunars the comments all appear one page behind. So Page 10 comments are found on page 9.

Core Book Comments all appear three pages behind. So Page 10 comments are found on page 7

Alchemicals, Infernals, Glories, Ink Monkies and Thousand Actions all work just fine.

I don't have Lords of the First Age in PDF form so can't say for that.

Thanks!

Sorry! My bad for not reading the lot really

Also I'd just like to thank you again for this. It is going to make my life so much easier and I really do appreciate all the effort you've put into it. If you ever need an Exalted book and can't afford it right away then just ask! I'll spin one your way.

Translates fine on adobe

Just a clarification, I used Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Reader. I'm pretty sure that once the comments are saved into the PDF (using acrobat, foxit, etc), they should show up in any PDF reader program.

Hm, I have missed this before. I definitely need to check it out once I have some more spare time.

Edit: Okay, screw it. I checked it out now and it's awesome. Really, really great. I can't believe how handy it is. The only thing better could be to get the books actually reprinted, but but this is much more flexible and now I can even edit the comments myself when new errata comes out. Really, I didn't even know comments were a thing.

The problem I see right off the bat is that some of the misprints and editing artefacts that appear in the Scroll of Errata is still there. For example, in Core p.149 (just above the guy stabbing a dog), the comment references Essence ping as minimum damage. That's been clarified as an editing mistake on the forums, but it really confused me the first time I read it. It could use getting removed, or at least noted that it was a mistake and should be ignored. I completely understand that you can't catch all of that, but I thought I'd point it out.

But yeah, this is absolutely fantastic.

Good job man. I've done this myself with the Core and the Lunar Book but I didn't know you can export only the comments as separate file. Good job

Brilliant idea. Sidereals is one page off for me though.

Too early.

Many thanks. So far, so good.

After you load the comments in once, just save the pdf file. It will load with the errata comments automatically after that.