Level Up (A5E) Contradictions between SRD, PDF, and Tools site

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When these different sources have different wordings/contradictory information, which trumps which? I imagine this is a question for @Morrus ? Or whoever's doing the SRD?

There are wording differences in rules, such as Dash:
A5e.tools: When you take the Dash action, you can use your action to move your speed (in addition to the movement you can make every turn).
SRD: When you take the Dash action, your speed is doubled for the current turn (after applying any modifiers). You can’t Dash if you’re suffering fatigue.

Twilight-touched Halflings, in the SRD they have 60ft darkvision but on a5e.tools & the AG they have 30ft. There's no errata changing it to 60ft.

The a5e.tools site specifies that Help requires being able to target an enemy with a melee attack, whereas AG says it only requires targeting with an attack- so Helping via ranged attack would work. There's no errata for that. The SRD has a different wording as well.

Names for features are different as well, for example the Adept has Focused Defense in SRD vs Patient Defense on Tools & AG.
 

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Afaik some terms were renamed to completely separate the A5E SRD from the WotC SRD.

I usually go with the "latest" source.

The books are probably the oldest, pdfs might have done errata included, SRD should have the most "refined" version but a5e tools probably has the quickest turnover between found and corrected error.
 

The books are probably the oldest, pdfs might have done errata included, SRD should have the most "refined" version but a5e tools probably has the quickest turnover between found and corrected error.
From my understanding the a5e.tools site was made with a pre-release version of the ruleset and it gets updated as people report discrepancies they see, usually from the AG.

Latest source is probably the SRD, no? So do Twilight halflings get 60ft of darkvision? There are more differences between sources than just the examples listed :(
 
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