D&D (2024) D&D 2024 Player's Handbook Errata

[SpellObjectEnthusiast]

Not to lean too hard into the "2024 bad" camp but this made me half glad I did not pre-order, buy the book or play 2024 when it came out after it was apparent that the Day 1 version already had some issues. I wonder when the next post-Errata printrun will be.

For 1st printing runs of a large RPG, the amount in here is honestly less than expected. 2014 D&D, pathfinder 2e, call of cthulhu, Edge of the Empire, Runequest - all of these have a similar or greater amount of errata items picked up after first printing.

 

[SlyFlourish]

@LaTia J Sorry to summon you twice in one day but I have another piece of feedback on the 2024 PHB errata. Please list the specific changes to the stat blocks in the PHB. Saying that they've been replaced with the monster manual stat blocks doesn't help players who don't have the monster manual and essentially invalidates 13 pages of the PHB. I'm sure the changes aren't so extensive that every part of every stat block has been replaced but it shouldn't be up to us to figure out what changed and what did not.

 

[LaTia J]

@LaTia J Sorry to summon you twice in one day but I have another piece of feedback on the 2024 PHB errata. Please list the specific changes to the stat blocks in the PHB. Saying that they've been replaced with the monster manual stat blocks doesn't help players who don't have the monster manual and essentially invalidates 13 pages of the PHB. I'm sure the changes aren't so extensive that every part of every stat block has been replaced but it shouldn't be up to us to figure out what changed and what did not.

I love teleporting around the forums; what do you mean

Can you elaborate what you mean? Do you mean how we relay errata in the changelog?

 

[Kinematics]

Most of the creatures listed at the back of the PHB are in the SRD under the "Animals" section. Most of those that aren't (Imp, Pseudodragon, Quasit, Skeleton, Sphinx of Wonder, Sprite, Zombie) are in the "Monsters" section.

The only ones that appear to be missing entirely are the Octopus and the Slaad Tadpole. I can kind of understand the Slaad not being in the SRD, but the Octopus seems like a strange one to miss. (The SRD has a lot more animals than the PHB, and seems to otherwise mirror the MM for that section.)

Since the SRD should be using the Errata'd form of the creatures (ie: from the Monster Manual), then that should be almost entirely sufficient for reference purposes without needing to buy the Monster Manual.

Note that in a quick check of a couple creatures, I couldn't find any differences between the PHB and the MM, so I'm not actually sure what changes are supposed to be expected. In that regard, the Errata still fails.

 

[SlyFlourish]

I love teleporting around the forums; what do you mean

Can you elaborate what you mean? Do you mean how we relay errata in the changelog?

The PHB errata has the following in it:

"APPENDIX B: "CREATURE STAT BLOCKS"
All Stat Blocks (pp. 346-359). All stat blocks in appendix B have been replaced with the Monster Manual (2025) versions."

That doesn't tell us what changed for these monsters. There's no way for us to tell without reviewing every single character of every single stat block to figure out what changed. I don't imagine the entire stat block changed for every monster and players don't usually have access to the Monster Manual.

I'd like to see a PHB errata that actually describes the changes to the stat blocks in the PHB.