D&D 5E (2024) Is 5E better because of Crawford and Perkins leaving?

[Charlaquin]

I would say that it allows you to pick your spot, then change it (by a bit) after you see where everyone else is situated, including visible enemies, without anyone complaining. It's not great but it's not too bad.

Fair enough.

 

[mamba]

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bonuses and the way feats work are mechanics.

if using a d10 instead of a d8 or adding a + to something is a mechanic, then everything is a mechanic. In that case, yeah so what, tweak the mechanics to achieve balance. Balance is more important than some unsocialized jerks being able to feel superior because they could bully others into taking inferior options

 

[TiQuinn]

Yes, but that’s by definition no longer a stealth errata. It’s just errata.

Okay, maybe you’re missing my original sarcastic point. When I said “announce it”, I meant they could have a marketing campaign at every printing telling everyone to go get their updated copy of the Player’s Handbook. It was a joke.

It’s errata. Errata makes its way into subsequent printings of the books and has for decades. There is no big deal made about it.

 

[Charlaquin]

Okay, maybe you’re missing my original sarcastic point. When I said “announce it”, I meant they could have a marketing campaign at every printing telling everyone to go get their updated copy of the Player’s Handbook. It was a joke.

Yeah, I did miss that.

It’s errata. Errata makes its way into subsequent printings of the books and has for decades. There is no big deal made about it.

Right, errata is fine. Good, even. Stealth errata is not.

 

[TiQuinn]

Yeah, I did miss that.

Right, errata is fine. Good, even. Stealth errata is not.

I don’t even know what stealth errata is.

 

[bedir than]

I don’t even know what stealth errata is.

It's errata that is changed in materials without notice

 

[TiQuinn]

It's errata that is changed in materials without notice

Why is that a big deal?

 

[Yaarel]

It's errata that is changed in materials without notice

I thought stealth errata was fixing things indirectly, while not admitting a problem. Like maybe, a subclass is subpar. So publishing a new subclass that is very similar and balanced would be the unsaid fix.

 

[Charlaquin]

Why is that a big deal?

Because there’s no record of the change. It’s just snuck in (hence the term “stealth”) under the radar, in hopes no one notices, and the original version is lost to history. I don’t know what to tell you if the reason that’s bad isn’t obvious. Archival is an intrinsic good. Actively trying to circumvent it is bad.

I thought stealth errata was fixing things indirectly, while not admitting a problem. Like maybe, a subclass is subpar. So publishing a new subclass that is very similar and balanced would be the unsaid fix.

Nah, @bedir than is correct, the term is most commonly used to refer to making changes without announcing or recording them anywhere.

 

[tetrasodium]

I don’t even know what stealth errata is.

Id class the coffee lock fix in xgte as a crowning example. Rather than issue an errata to fix a bunch of warlock wording that granted the appearance of opening a door that forced GMs to repeatedly say "no actually" there was a blurb stuck in somewhere about sleep that the gm would need to find. That particular example gets a cherry on top of the stealth erratta Sunday for being buried someplace that is not on the same page as the invocation in the same book to remove a need for sleep that just created one more thing the coffee lock facing gm needed to say "no actually" to.