Dark Souls tabletop RPG rulebooks will be corrected and reissued

Steamforged Games will correct and reissue manuals for Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game, whose rulebooks have been in circulation for a month and are reportedly shot through with errors.

“[T]he best course of action is to order reprints of the book,” Steamforged said in a statement Tuesday afternoon, “issuing replacement copies to those customers who have already bought or pre-ordered the Standard Edition and/or Collector’s Edition.” Steamforged added “a sincere apology” for the errors and thanked players for bringing the problems to light.

That began last week, when collector’s edition buyers in Europe and the United States got their advanced copies, and found mistakes ranging from spelling errors all the way up to game-breaking inconsistencies in the rules. The books’ full launch in the U.S. comes May 16.

Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game, is a tabletop role-playing game adapted from both FromSoftware’s A-list video game franchise and an open-source version of Dungeons & Dragons’ 5th Edition rules. Steamforged announced pre-orders for the game back in January, riding the coattails of the commercially successful but critically middling tabletop game it Kickstarted in 2016.

Last Week, some players who purchased early complained about serious contradictions in the information they had been reading in their rulebooks. One example is that a Knight would not have the strength to wear their starting-level armor . In another, Casters couldn’t wield a recommended weapon. Steamforged, in a statement to Polygon, said it took the complaints “seriously” but didn’t, at the time, consider them game-breaking mistakes.

” Although these issues shouldn’t impact the gameplay of the game they’re still striving to improve our processes to ensure that our loyal fans continue enjoying the games we produce,” Steamforged stated last week.

Tuesday’s statement applies not only to hard copies of Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game‘s standard and collector’s edition, it also means PDFs for the game will be rewritten and reissued. Steamforged stated that they are “coming soon” with information about how to get updated copies and the release date.

” We ask for patience while we collect more information about these reprints and the timescales involved. Also, how to best ensure that we solve this problem for every customer.” Steamforged stated.