Amusing Type-os (no bashing!)

[Intrope]

Didn't a later edition of the 2nd edition Player's Handbook have a search-and-replace error, substituting "mage" for wizard in certain spots?

As the tale goes, there were several spots in the printing where the term "damage" was replaced with "dawizard"...

However, I have not been able to confirm this.

Actually, I think that was the 4-volume Encyclopedia Magica magic item compendium from 2nd edition. As I recall it had dawizard/iwizard all through it--one of the stupidest possible mistakes (since it shouldn't happen in the first place--learn to use your text editor!--, ought to leap out of the spellchecker, and it should be immediately obvious to any proofreaders).

 

[Moulin Rogue]

an early D&D classic: the monster column, "% in Liar".

 

[Monster Manuel]

See my name.

 

[BenBrown]

then there was the newspaper who reported on a speech by a "bottle-scarred veteran". They later printed a retraction, which said that the man was, in fact, a "battle-scared veteran".

 

[Fenris]

In just proof-reading some campaign material for my home-brew I came across " the Thieves Guild will often snuggle demi-humans into the country". I thought, my what loving thieves, but it ought to be smuggle!

 

[Number47]

Soothe the savage beast is a misinterpretation that has been around so long as to be a saying in its' own right. Just like Gild the lily is a senseless shortening of the original Shakespeare, You would not gild gold, not paint the lily (paraphrased).

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

The large urban school district which employs me once sent out a letter to thousands of households that included the phrase Milwaukee Pubic Schools. Supposedly, everyone was told to remove the word "pubic" from their spell-check dictionaries in MS Word.

 

[Delemental]

See my name.

I was once tempted to make a character named Manuel who was an extradimensional traveler, just so I could be "Manuel of the Planes"...

 

[Duncan Haldane]

In an ad in the yellow pages here last year a bus company included that they could be hired for school executions.

 

[MEG Hal]

That's "eye"...

No that would be ME!
or....

Know thate wood bee mee!