Recent content by Charlaquin

Nah, that’s a disadvantage too, because it allows them to make changes on the sly.

Because there’s no record of the change. It’s just snuck in (hence the term “stealth”) under the radar, in hopes no one notices, and the original version is lost to history. I don’t know what to tell you if the reason that’s bad isn’t obvious. Archival is an intrinsic good. Actively trying to...

Yeah, I did miss that. Right, errata is fine. Good, even. Stealth errata is not.

Fair enough.

Yes, but that’s by definition no longer a stealth errata. It’s just errata.

They are absolutely not assuming that, since that’s not how Initiative works in 5e. Fleeing by yourself, abandoning the rest of the party? That might be useful in some modes of play, but the vast majority of 5e players would never consider such a thing.

The problem is not that their intent was unclear or that I didn’t like the rule. It was that there’s a standardized way of writing what they were trying to make the rule do, that has been used consistently in all other cases, but this time they just… forgot how to write for their own game for a...

You know there’s an official errata document, right…?

Oh, true. Good point!

And people believe the line that 5e is written in natural language 🤣 The thing is, the game already has a standardized (and functional!) way to express that. It’s used by the Ready action, and in the corrected text of the feature in question. Someone apparently just forgot that when they...

Seems like a poor policy, since people with older printings will have incorrect text and not know it.

You can’t stealth errata a physical book. Unless they’re hiring ninjas to sneak into my house and swap the book for one with different text while I’m asleep. Yeah, that’s kind of surprising. Even as intended it seems like a very weak feature to me, I wonder why they felt the need to make it...

You know, in all the discussion of whether or not the unpredictable movement feature actually functioned as intended, I kinda forgot to consider if it would even be any good. Move up to your speed (now half your speed) as a Reaction when you roll initiative…? Maybe this is just me, but my...

So, I guess they must have caught wind of people on social media noticing this and, recognizing how incredibly embarrassing a mistake it was, just quietly changed it instead of broadcasting the mistake with proper, public errata. I guess that’s one of the benefits (for WotC) of it being a...

Dashing as a bonus action is significantly different than dashing as a reaction. Because what dashing does is gives you more of a resource, called movement, which you spend on your turn to change your character’s location. If you Dash as a bonus action, you gain movement equal to your speed...