D&D (2024) Sage Advice Compendium Updated To 2024

The latest Sage Advice Compendium updates provide official rules clarifications for D&D 2024. Sage Advice is not errata, but acts more like a FAQ for common rules queries.

The Sage Advice Compendium collects questions and answers about rules interactions in Dungeons & Dragons. With the release of the new Core Rulebooks, Sage Advice has been updated to encompass the new material presented in these books. It will continue to be updated as more questions are brought up by the community.

 

[aco175]

This one is interesting. I did not know this and allowed it. I think most of the time the cleric would attack and then bonus action to healing word, but I was allowing it to be cast as the action if they wanted.

 

[Reynard]

So, dragon breath and most monster attack powers are not magical, at least as it relates to the rules.

 

[darjr]

Is this new?

 

[bedir than]

Is this new?

Yes, with some new answers for 2024 questions.
Also, a major redesign that lists the most recent errata issued for every official product

 

[pukunui]

Good to have this clarified even if I don’t like it – particularly in the way that this makes it so if you fail your save against a monk’s Stunning Strike, you can move at full speed, whereas if you succeed, you can only move at half speed.

EDIT: I'm sticking with Stunned = no movement.

 

[TiQuinn]

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/sae/sage-advice-compendium#RulesReferences

Let the rage commence!

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/sae/sage-advice-compendium#OfficialRulings

I'm going to back to this statement and say this is the Jeremy Crawford trap clause. I think they'd be far better served by pushing out errata and letting the rules be what they are. Pushing out rules clarifications without weight as errata is ultimately not helpful, IMO.

 

[bedir than]

I'm tempted to bring back a one-time house rule idea I had for humans -- an additional Background rather than Skillful and Versatile.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/sae/sage-advice-compendium#SAC-BG1

 

[Shiroiken]

This one is interesting. I did not know this and allowed it. I think most of the time the cleric would attack and then bonus action to healing word, but I was allowing it to be cast as the action if they wanted.

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In reality, using two different bonus action abilities on a turn isn't game breaking by any stretch. The only examples I've seen where it could be an issue is using the same bonus action in a turn, such as for Spiritual Weapon.

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Good to have this clarified even if I don’t like it – particularly in the way that this makes it so if you fail your save against a monk’s Stunning Strike, you can move at full speed, whereas if you succeed, you can only move at half speed.

Despite not having played 2024 yet, I've already houseruled this. While Stunned is less like Paralyzed, it is now much closer to Incapacitated. I've decided that Stunned reduces your movement by half, which puts it much closer to the middle, and it works with the Monk ability.

 

[pukunui]

This one is interesting. I did not know this and allowed it. I think most of the time the cleric would attack and then bonus action to healing word, but I was allowing it to be cast as the action if they wanted.

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Really? This was the case in 2014 as well. Most of this Sage Advice is just 2014 stuff updated for 2024.