WOTC just released the first Errata for the D&D 2024 Player's Handbook:
and in PDF!
and in PDF!
D&D (2024) D&D 2024 Player's Handbook Errata
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Kobold Avenger
Legend
It has a nerf for Conjure Minor Elementals! What everyone was asking for!
Also a bunch of other Conjure spells were nerfed.
Also a bunch of other Conjure spells were nerfed.
@LaTia J First, thank you so much for coming to EN World to share your info with those of us who don't spend a lot of time on other social media platforms! I really appreciate it.
For the PHB errata, it would be more useful to list which creatures were changed between the PHB and MM so we don't have to hunt around for the changes. Also, I assume there are people who have the PHB but don't have the MM so you might consider offering the actual changes in the PDF. Maybe that's covered in the upcoming SRD (yay!!) but it's still some work to go hunt for them.
For the PHB errata, it would be more useful to list which creatures were changed between the PHB and MM so we don't have to hunt around for the changes. Also, I assume there are people who have the PHB but don't have the MM so you might consider offering the actual changes in the PDF. Maybe that's covered in the upcoming SRD (yay!!) but it's still some work to go hunt for them.
Kinematics
Hero
Some nice changes.
Goliath's Powerful Build trait was fixed.
The Conjure line of spells have had their scaling reduced.
Giant Insect HP scaling was fixed.
And Hide had its description clarified, with respect to how it gave you the Invisible condition.
Goliath's Powerful Build trait was fixed.
The Conjure line of spells have had their scaling reduced.
Giant Insect HP scaling was fixed.
And Hide had its description clarified, with respect to how it gave you the Invisible condition.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Interesting.
These are precisely the sort of actual balance changes that 5E's original designers swore they wouldn't make. Of course they started moving away from that with a previous major errata, but it's clearly been fully abandoned as a concept now.
I think the original teams concerns was more “we don’t want to fundamentally change how a feature works through errata” (like the change from 2014 to Tasha’s for Beast Master) but corrections or math adjustments (which ultimately is what happened here) was definitely on the table.
I also think that the desire to not do massive errata docs during the early parts of 5E14 were in direct response to the ones they did have for 4E. But now that it's a decade later I think most people have gotten over the reflexive cooties-reaction to things like that that they might have had back in '14 or '15, so the team won't be as worried about it anymore.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
No, it wasn't. It was corrections and clarifications only. They were clear. They weren't doing numbers changes for the sake of balance.
But that changed with I think the post-Tasha's errata, because a couple of the Tasha's (I think!) spells were just wacky in their original form. So it's not like it's a new-new change, but it's definitely confirmed that they're sticking with the post-Tasha's approach here, in that they're halving the scaling (a huge change for those spells), and changing how the Goliath ability functions to make it more useful.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
For sure. 80%+ of the people playing D&D 5E now probably don't even know about 4E's rapid-fire rebalancing (which I kind of enjoyed and kind of loathed lol).
