D&D General Hilarious typos in D&D books

Posted without comment. Or with little comment, at least. This from Descent into Avernus.

 

[Aaron L]

Surprised this classic hadn't shown up yet:

That "dawizard" typo is all throughout those books. Someone must have done a lazy find/replace of "Mage" with "Wizard."

 

[ddaley]

This is probably one of the best threads ever...

 

[Eltab]

Dragon Heist, pg 83
The PCs are looking for a secret hideout. An NPC offers to do one or the other of two somethings "so they can find it on his own."

Just WHO is going to search out the place?

 

[Orius]

Typos are a D&D tradition.

However as funny as this one is, it doesn't hold a candle to the two previously mentioned classics, %Liar and the infamous dawizard.

 

[Ratskinner]

Then again, I'd probably be even more intimidated by the guy that was peeing into the wind, getting it blown back on him, and not caring.

I dunno about intimidated....but I'm sure not going to initiate a grapple anytime soon.

 

[Fenris-77]

Just keep in mind that when you initiate you're only a letter swap away from being intimate.

 

[Luce]

Wizards did an April Fools feature on "Typos of Doom"

April Fools: Typos of Doom Illustrated

April Fools: Typos of Doom Illustrated

archive.wizards.com

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Not published, but a DM I tamed under once passed a note about the “chili wind”. The player looked up and asked aloud, “Is that with or without beans?”

After the mistake was revealed to many chuckles someone else brought up the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles.

Weeeee...didn’t get much gaming done that evening.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Not sure if you are for or against the Oxford comma. I'm for it, but use or non-use of the Oxford comma is more a matter of style. Many U.S. style guides used by news papers (e.g., the APA Style Guide) do not use it, unless it is necessary to avoid confusion. My understanding is that this was one of many ways newspapers tried to get more print in limited space.

Despite it's name, the Oxford comma is an Americanism, and is considered incorrect in the UK. The purpose of punctuation is to clarify meaning. If the presence or absence of the punctuation mark does not change the meaning then it serves no purpose and should be omitted.

 

[Hussar]

Not published, but a DM I tamed under once passed a note about the “chili wind”. /snip

"Tamed under"? LOL. Irony is ironic. And, really, really funny.