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Huge chunks of information missing from starfinder books.

Title pretty much says it all but a lot of vital tables are missing when it comes to the creation of ships also entire spell tables are missing from the Galaxy Exploration Manual. Additionally, many things require the Character Operations Manual but roll 20 does not provide that rule book but that's not something I should have been expected to know when first purchasing a set of books. Am I missing something and if not how is this in any way acceptable? It's almost like they read the books through a scanner and didn't do any quality control and then charged full price for them?! 
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keithcurtis
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Hi Kellen! If it is in the print edition, it should certainly be in the digital version. Roll20 is very careful about things like that. Can you cite a specific table to check against? It might not be in the place you are looking for it.
Entire progression tables for the classes included in the Galaxy operations manual are missing all inserted tables are missing. The table for starship frames on page 229 for example. Starship frames are also missing. But there are dozens of missing paragraphs in general. What I'm finding is most tables or information that are inset within imagine are not included.
Also @ Keithcurtis if you had looked at the roll20 copy of the CRB for any length of time, you would know that dozens of pages end in the middle of sentences or even words so obviously quite a lot is missing. Even if some of what I think is not there is merely hard to find.
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Also @ Keithcurtis if you had looked at the roll20 copy of the CRB for any length of time, you would know that dozens of pages end in the middle of sentences or even words so obviously quite a lot is missing. Even if some of what I think is not there is merely hard to find. Checking now. Keep in mind, this is volunteer effort I'm doing here. I'm a conversion contractor, not an employee and don't represent Roll20. I do this sort of thing to help other users like myself. My reason for asking was to make it quick and easy to verify the report. I do not play Starfinder, so your help in spotlighting an issue is a great timesaver. Now, given the specific citation,   Entire progression tables for the classes included in the Galaxy operations manual are missing all inserted tables are missing. The table for starship frames on page 229 for example. Starship frames are also missing. But there are dozens of missing paragraphs in general. What I'm finding is most tables or information that are inset within imagine are not included. Galaxy Operations has 159 numbered pages. Character Operations has 158. I cannot find a page 229 in either print edition. Neither of those books seems to mention " starship frames". Ah, OK, 229 is a CRB reference (later post). That table is here , reproducing the text from 228 through 229. The sample vehicles which are listed on the print page have links at the bottom of the web page to individual compendium pages, one for each vehicle. The compendium is not designed to be read like a PDF, but things like spells, vehicles, and equipment are broken out into their own entries, usually for drag and drop purposes. I'd be happy to investigate other examples, and see if I can help make Roll20 aware of errors. But many large missing swaths would almost certainly have been widely and angrily reported by this time. If you'd like to report any missing info officially, the best way to do this is in a  Help Center Request , which will create a ticket to be assigned to a Roll20 dev or staff member. Stuff here in the forums is mostly community help.
I do appreciate your efforts to help. Not that I have the expectation that you will answer them but I will post anything weird or missing here. The link you posted to starship frames works but the intended link in my compendium is still gray and unresponsive for me and the players I share the book with.  ***Just clicking around to see if I can find anything else that doesn't work andThe link to table 9-1 takes me to the page to purchase Alien Archive 3 but that seems strange given table 9-2 exists in the CRB and brings up the issue of without purchasing an additional copy of the CRB, I don't know what I'm missing.*** I have been communicating with Roll20 support and they admitted the missing table (that seems to not be missing now) but denied me a refund based on the time passed. Even if the things that I'm looking for are there to be found somewhere it's an extremely janky product compared to other rulebooks I have purchase on this website and selling the Galaxy exploration manual that requires a second book that is not sold here is very unethical, especially considering they advertise the new classes.  (You said you don't play Starfinder so the progression table and spell table for Vanguard and technomancer featured in the GEM are in a additional book called The Character Operations Manual) Thanks a
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Yeah, the compendium is kind of an octopus on the back end, and Paizo tends to refer to a lot of subsidiary books in their modules. When producing a module, the conversion team will often include essential rules that would require a different purchase as a handout in said module. Some of them have many handouts. They do the same for WotC, but Paizo seems to occur more often. In the case of the missing table that became un-missing, my guess is that it was a linking problem from the particular link you were travelling from. They might have fixed it based on your report. Another thing to try when you get what seems to be a wrong link is to check the source drop down at the top. If similar rules are in different sourcebooks, this can act as a disambiguation selector. If you can send the URL of the page that the bad table link you mentioned links from, I can try and verify that and lend my voice to your own report. Ultimately, the best thing to do to get something fixed is a  Help Center Request , particularly for Compendium errors. Usually, a bad link, typo, or missing paragraph can be fixed pretty easily, and Roll20 makes tickets from those reports.
Thanks man!  I appreciate your time and I will link that here later. Really none of this would matter if they would include the (labeled) tables in the glossary...
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Ah, that I can solve. If you are looking at any document, they will usually track back to "Rules". This is the index you are likely looking for . Go to this page and scroll down to "T". You should see all of the Tables. In-game you can find this page as one of the top categories in the Compendium tab.