D&D 5E New Errata Released For D&D PHB, OotA, Xanathar, and ToF

WOtC has published an updated Sage Advice compendium with updated errata for the D&D Player's Handbook, Out of the Abyss, and for Xanathar's Guide and Tome of Foes.

https://media.wizards.com/2020/dnd/downloads/PH-Errata.pdf PHB

https://media.wizards.com/2020/dnd/downloads/OotA-Errata.pdf OOtA

https://media.wizards.com/2020/dnd/downloads/XGtE-Errata.pdf Xanathar

https://media.wizards.com/2020/dnd/downloads/MTF-Errata.pdf ToF

 

[Chaosmancer]

Ah interesting. I've been playing a ton of 5E last few weeks (playing a weekly game for the first time since my teens) so thought I'd head over here to see how things were going. Sorry for being out-of-the-loop!

No problem, I don't expect everyone to be keeping up (I certainly don't) just wanted to forewarn you if you see some still heated debate

 

[Chaosmancer]

Oh, this is interesting. They altered Life Transference to make the necrotic damage you take irreducible. That's actually a relatively big change for that spell.

 

[LordEntrails]

Yeah but the Healing Spirit thing is a gigantic change which turns a spell from over-powered to "kinda dodgy". That's a classic 4E-style nerf.

Then don't use it?

You say HS was over-powered, then you complain they fixed it? I don't get it. "It's broken but how dare you try to correct it!"

 

[Prakriti]

Seriously? They do a Mordenkainen's Errata and don't fix the Winter Eladrin? That actually makes me upset.

What's wrong with Winter Eladrin? And do you mean the race or the monster stat block?

 

[Chaosmancer]

Most of them are, though Ancestral Guardian seems to get a nerf (from d8s to d6s) and the Xanathar’s version of the research downtime action got cheaper.

I don't think they actually intended to make research cheaper. I think they misprinted those numbers, since reading before you could not gain a benefit from a single week of research, you needed two.

Honestly, it never came up so I never noticed it before.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Then don't use it?

You say HS was over-powered, then you complain they fixed it? I don't get it. "It's broken but how dare you try to correct it!"

I don't think they "fixed" it, I think it went from overpowered to slightly crap, skipping over "fixed".

More to the point, I've been running and playing 5E based on a very specific understanding - that they were not prepared to make any major buffs/nerfs/fixes to literally anything in the game, and thus I should judge the game based on that. Once you get rid of that, and start making major buffs and nerfs, like this, then a whole lot of other problems with 5E become open to question. Yes, this is overpowered, it needed reducing in power - but there's other stuff that needs that, and there's even more stuff that's ridiculously weak, and could do with work. So now should I expect that work to happen? Or not?

It shines a different, 4E-like (I liked 4E btw) light on 5E. I assume that's what the heated debates I'm hearing about revolve around.

 

[Chaosmancer]

What's wrong with Winter Eladrin? And do you mean the race or the monster stat block?

The monster statblock.

They are horribly underpowered compared to the other eladrin. They have only a 10 Dex, giving the elf/fey race a +0 to their attacks. They have only a 13 Cha which is weird for Fey (all the other eladrin have an 18) and all of their damage from their attacks does not include a damage rider, which every other Eladrin has (1d8 for the Spring who are casters focusing on enchantment, 4d8 for the healing based Autumn, and 1d8 fire for Summer)

It is just really really jarring. Threw us for a complete loop when the DM gave us an Eladrin Squad to help us fight some invading devils and realized that the Winter were so weak. (Yes, they have Cone of Cold, that does not excuse the rest of this)

 

[dave2008]

Trap the Soul is removed from the Wizard spell list?

There was never a spell description, it just appeared on the list. This just corrects that mistake.

 

[Iry]

Easiest fix for Winter Eladrin is to make their Cone and Storm 3/Day.

 

[dave2008]

More to the point, I've been running and playing 5E based on a very specific understanding - that they were not prepared to make any major buffs/nerfs/fixes to literally anything in the game, and thus I should judge the game based on that. Once you get rid of that, and start making major buffs and nerfs, like this, then a whole lot of other problems with 5E become open to question. Yes, this is overpowered, it needed reducing in power - but there's other stuff that needs that, and there's even more stuff that's ridiculously weak, and could do with work. So now should I expect that work to happen? Or not?

It shines a different, 4E-like (I liked 4E btw) light on 5E. I assume that's what the heated debates I'm hearing about revolve around.

That is still the general stance. Whether it is technically errata is something that can be discussed, but this isn't the first time there has been a "correction" that nerfed/buffed something. But in general I would not expect something like that from WotC, they are few and fare between. Therefore, if you think something needs tweaked (buff/nerf/fix), you should go ahead and do it - don't wait on WotC.