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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...

I can’t read the designer’s minds, but if they were aware of the way abilities that allow off-turn movement are usually formatted within this system and why, and decided, “eh, everyone will know what we mean if we word it a different way that doesn’t actually work within the rules system this...

Magic is cross-generational. The folks who started playing it in the 90s are parents now, and some of them grandparents. Kids aren’t in the cards for me but if I had them I would much, much rather play Magic with them than monopoly or scrabble or whatever.

5e tries to sound like it’s written in natural language, but there is a very specific functional technical logic to its phrasing. This is easy to miss if you’re not keenly attuned to it, but it’s there, as I’m sure @mearls can attest. What this particular botched feature makes me worry is that...

It does not say that. It says you Dash. Dash doesn’t allow you to spend movement, it increases the amount of movement you have available to spend. What this feature should say to work the way it was obviously intended to is “you can move up to your speed.”

They seem to in 2024. For example, the way casting a spell with a casting time of a minute or longer works is you have to use the Magic action on each of your turns until the casting time has elapsed. Which is obviously an absurd thing to attempt in combat, and there isn’t a different rule for...

Agreed. It’s not confusing or hard to fix, it’s just a strange mistake for them to have made, and makes me concerned that the quality control has slipped.

It’s very obvious that it’s trying to allow you to move as a reaction when you roll initiative. The issue isn’t that you can’t tell what it’s supposed to do, the issue is that the way they wrote it doesn’t do that, and it’s not a good sign that they don’t seem to know their own rules well enough...

There is no mechanism for spending movement outside your own turn. Save Readying movement, which is also not the Dash action for precisely this reason.

This has nothing to do with specific vs. general. The issue is that the Dash Action doesn’t do what you intuitively expect it to do. Dash doesn’t move your character, it gives them more of a resource, called movement, that you expend on your turn to move your character. The feature is trying to...

This is maybe more harsh than I’d have characterized the situation, but I do agree that so far the quality post-2024 has been very inconsistent. Which I imagine will be rough for WotC, since consistency was the main draw of 1st party content compared to the 3rd party firehose.

Those others being… Crawford and Perkins. And briefly Cook, but he left when he realized WotC was still just as corporate as it had been when he left the first time.

Same thing All completely unplayable cards now. 🤨

Commander has pretty much completely taken over kitchen table magic.