Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player's Handbook Is Already Getting Errata

The 2024 Player's Handbook on D&D Beyond contains several updates to the new revised 5th edition ruleset. Early access users of D&D Beyond who have also obtained a physical copy of the 2024 Player's Handbook have noticed several minor differences between the digital and physical copy, assumably due to soon-to-be-released errata. Notably, the following changes have been spotted:

• Giant Insect spell contains a clarification on its HP (the physical edition states that the summoned insect has an HP of 30+10 for each level in the spell slot used to cast the spell; the digital version states 30+10 for every level above 4th level),
• Shields now require the Utilize action to don or doff
• Goliath's Powerful Build now specifies that it grants Advantage on ability checks to end the Grappled Condition instead of saving throws.
• True Polymorph's spell description no longer states that the spell effects end if its target's temporary hit points run out.
• The Telekinetic feat now specifies that it grants an increased range to the use of Mage Hand instead stating that you can cast Mage Hand at a further distance away.

Notably, Wizards of the Coast has not released an official errata document for the Player's Handbook, although they may be holding out until the book's full release on September 17th.

 

[pukunui]

No it doesn't it says they've updated D&D Beyond, but maybe there is a PDF?

When you search you only find a 2014 PDF

No. They have quietly changed things on DDB but haven’t publicly acknowledged those changes yet.

I found one from The Wild Beyond the Witchlight just the other day. It never got any official errata document either.

I don’t like how they change things on DDB without telling us what they’ve changed so we can make a note of it in our physical books.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

There was an errata section on Beyond I remember it. Though I can’t find it currently on the mobile version of the site.

 

[Garmel]

Are there any dead tree corrected printings out there yet?

 

[Azzy]

Arise slumbering thread

Is there an official errata pdf yet? New print of the PHB?

Probably won't be until the next printing.

 

[pukunui]

There was an errata section on Beyond I remember it. Though I can’t find it currently on the mobile version of the site.

There wont be anything new there. WotC has either ceased issuing errata documents all together or else they are waiting for a while to issue them. I believe it took about a year for them to issue errata for the 2014 books.

 

[Echohawk]

There wont be anything new there. WotC has either ceased issuing errata documents all together or else they are waiting for a while to issue them. I believe it took about a year for them to issue errata for the 2014 books.

Yes, ten months. There is a thread on the D&D Beyond forums tracking the details of errata, but it hasn't been updated since January 2023 which, to be fair, seems to be when the last errata was published (for Tyranny of Dragons). In the last two years, as far as I know, Wizards hasn't published any official errata, only made undocumented changes to the D&D Beyond versions of the books.

 

[pukunui]

In the last two years, as far as I know, Wizards hasn't published any official errata, only made undocumented changes to the D&D Beyond versions of the books.

Yes, which absolutely sucks.

EDIT: Now, I can understand maybe if they paused doing errata documents while working on the 2024 core rulebooks, but it would have been nice if they'd actually said that. Fingers crossed they will start doing official errata documents now that the core rules are all finished.

 

[Bomberooski]

Well dangit. Came here hoping to find an errata list for each of the 3 core 2024 books to make some edits in them tonight!

Very frustrating stuff.

For those of you making edits to your physical copies how do you personally do it?

 

[pukunui]

Well dangit. Came here hoping to find an errata list for each of the 3 core 2024 books to make some edits in them tonight!

Very frustrating stuff.

For those of you making edits to your physical copies how do you personally do it?

Well, back when WotC was publishing PDFs of the errata, I would print them out, fold them in half, and stick them in front of the book. Then I would take a pencil and put little asterisks in the margins next to all the bits with errata.

 

[Osgood]

Well dangit. Came here hoping to find an errata list for each of the 3 core 2024 books to make some edits in them tonight!

Very frustrating stuff.

For those of you making edits to your physical copies how do you personally do it?

I typically use Beyond, which keeps me up to date, but I do bring a PH to the table so I try to have major errata noted for that one. I'll ignore anything I deem unlikely to come up, but otherwise I'll write the corrected wording on a small post-it and stick over or near the original. I suppose if it was extensive, I'd user something larger like a note card.