D&D (2024) How extensive (if any) will be the PHB errata?

[pukunui]

Someone needs to get Jeremy on the phone and make sure he’s taking notes on all this stuff so he can issue errata / sage advice ASAP!

 

[UngeheuerLich]

I really really hope some of the bugs were already found before the final print run...
I am actually very annoyed about the sloppy proof reading.

Stunned not setting speed to 0.
Goliaths powerful build.
Some spells.
Legacy backgronds giving more proficiencies.
Unswappable double proficiencies.
Dual wielding in a single hand.

What were they thinking?

 

[mellored]

Legacy backgronds giving more proficiencies.

How so?

2014 Acolyte got
Religion, Insight, 2 languages.

2024 Acolyte got
Religion, Insight, calligraphy.

Unswappable double proficiencies.

Are you sure that's a thing?

 

[Blue]

They'll probably do that, too - but I wouldn't be surprised if we have some explanations for what they were thinking regarding things like how Stealth works, or the like.

Don't know if you read this thread on 2024 Stealth, but a poster with access to a book and they've playtested the new Stealth rules and when you have everything from the PHB (I think he said 5 different parts), it works.

It may not be as confusing as the piecemeal bits by themselves made it out to be.

 

[Blue]

In the meantime, I’ll just use the DDB versions, which will get updated automatically.

Bit of a side question: What are the DDB prices? I had assumed buying them on DDB and buying the print versions was a lot more expensive than the bundled print+DDB prices, but I never actually checked.

 

[Blue]

Was missing some context, I got it now. Ignore this.

 

[Clint_L]

There’s a specific interaction between the way the Light property, the Nick mastery, and the rules for drawing and stowing weapons are worded that could be interpreted as allowing you to draw or stow an extra weapon when attacking with Nick that you wouldn’t be able to when dual wielding without Nick, which could enable you to, for example, have a shield in one hand, a scimitar in the other, and another sheathed scimitar, then attack with the first scimitar, sheathe it after the attack, then draw and attack with the other scimitar. Alternatively, if you add in the Dual Wielder feat (which is now worded to give you a bonus action attack, separate from the two weapon fighting rules, as long as you’ve attacked with a Light weapon that turn) you could hold a scimitar in each hand, attack with and sheath one, attack with the other and draw a rapier or longsword, and then attack with the longsword as a bonus action. Add Extra Attack at 5th level and you could attack with the rapier or longsword again using your Extra Attack and sheathe it. There’s actually one too few attacks made as part of the attack action to draw the original scimitar again in the same turn, so you can really only pull this sequence off every other round.

Are these actual problems, or just people liking to argue semantics on the forum? Because most of the so-called problems just seem like folks arguing semantics to try to get around the obvious intent, and as a DM I wouldn't waste time on it.

 

[Demetrios1453]

As Bronn of the Blackwater once famously said. “There’s no cure for being a”

Cracks me up that folks would actually have players with the cheek to even suggest attacking, sheathing the weapon, drawing another weapon and attacking. With one hand to get around the fact that they only have two hands.

Same. Rules layers like this just remind me of Brainy Smurf saying, "But Papa Smurf always says...", just replacing it with "The rules technically say..." Just remember that Brainy Smurf always got tossed out of the village on his head when he tried to pull that off...

 

[pukunui]

Bit of a side question: What are the DDB prices? I had assumed buying them on DDB and buying the print versions was a lot more expensive than the bundled print+DDB prices, but I never actually checked.

They're $30 each. It is cheaper to buy the bundle, but I want to get the alt cover versions, which aren't part of the bundle deal, so I have no choice but to get both at full price.

 

[mellored]

Don't know if you read this thread on 2024 Stealth, but a poster with access to a book and they've playtested the new Stealth rules and when you have everything from the PHB (I think he said 5 different parts), it works.

Per the title of that thread, it works if you add the missing

Moving Out of Cover After Hiding Makes Enemies Immediately "Finds You"​

But that line is missing from the book.