D&D General Hilarious typos in D&D books

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

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I didn’t even notice!

 

[Morrus]

Despite it's name, the Oxford comma is an Americanism, and is considered incorrect in the UK.

Depends which style guide you use. In the UK The Oxford Style Manual and the MHRA Style Guide both recommend using it, while the Guardian Style Guide, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, Fowler's Dictionary, and New Hart's Rules consider it discretionary.

Conversely in the US, The New York Times and the AP Stylebook both oppose its use.

It's not as black-and-white as a UK/US thing.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

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.

That's overstating the matter Paul. Oxford commas are absolutely not "considered incorrect" in the UK. It may be considered unnecessary, or less than ideal, by certain style guides, particularly for journalistic writing, but "incorrect" is going far too far. You also frequently see it used in UK legal documents. It's like people claiming - ize is "incorrect". It is not. It is less widely used, but it's still acceptable (your specific organisation may prefer a more standard form of course).

 

[Doctor Futurity]

One neither peers into nor (wisely) pees into a hot wind.

But I could totally see the miners being minors.

 

[Zander]

Can't remember the source (could have been Dungeon Master for Dummies) that instead of Castle Maure says 'Castle Manure' [sic] in its index. Don't know if Castle Manure features in the Avernus campaign but it could explain the peeing. Maybe the elf though it was the done thing to pee at a castle made of dung. Might also explain the hot wind.

Another typo - from a third party RPG source I can't recall offhand - was 'pubic' instead of 'public'.

 

[pukunui]

Just found an actual typo in Storm King’s Thunder that I reckon is pretty hilarious!

Check out the first 5th level spell in this mage’s spellbook:

 

[Fenris-77]

Oh no, he's casting the dreaded cone of CONE! Fleeeee! Arrgh ... its ... so .... orange .... garglefnahblurt

 

[Prakriti]

I thought about posting all the typos I found in Ghosts of Saltmarsh as I read through it, but... WotC isn't paying me to copy-edit their books for them.

 

[Eltab]

Tangling two threads...
Cone of Cones produces dozens of the pointy-bottom kind of ice cream cones and blasts everybody in the zone with them. Use the rules for the spell Catapult except as modified here. On a crit, the spell also creates scoops of ice cream (caster's choice of flavor) which strike the targets (but do no additional damage).

 

[Eltab]

Oh no, he's casting the dreaded cone of CONE! Fleeeee! Arrgh ... its ... so .... orange .... garglefnahblurt

Good luck fleeing from traffic cones; they reduce your speed to a crawl. (No pun intended.) They also block movement through normally-open spaces.