D&D 5E Latest D&D Errata: Drow, Alignment, & More

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This Sage Advice provides updates and errata for a number of books, as well as answers to rules questions.

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D&D books occasionally receive corrections and other updates to their rules and story. This Sage Advice installment presents updates to several books. I then answer a handful of rules questions, focusing on queries related to Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons and Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos.

Official errata has been published for the following books:

• Curse of Strahd
• Dungeon Master’s Guide
• Player’s Handbook
• Storm King’s Thunder
• Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
• Tales from the Yawning Portal
• Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
• Tomb of Annihilation
• Volo’s Guide to Monsters

Here's some of the highlights.

• Alignment is removed from the Racial Traits section of races.
• Drow have undergone lore changes which reflect the different types of drow. The 'darkness of the drow' sidebar which portrays them as only evil has been removed.
• Storm King's Thunder alters references to 'Savage Frontier' and 'barbarians'; Curse of Strahd alters references to the Vistani.
• The controversial Silvery Barbs spell has been clarified.

As a drow, you are infused with the magic of the Underdark, an underground realm of wonders and horrors rarely seen on the surface above. You are at home in shadows and, thanks to your innate magic, learn to con- jure forth both light and darkness. Your kin tend to have stark white hair and grayish skin of many hues.

The cult of the god Lolth, Queen of Spiders, has cor- rupted some of the oldest drow cities, especially in the worlds of Oerth and Toril. Eberron, Krynn, and other realms have escaped the cult’s influence—for now. Wherever the cult lurks, drow heroes stand on the front lines in the war against it, seeking to sunder Lolth’s web.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

That hardly applies to a "significant portion of potential players" as it was claimed in the post I responded to.

You haven't responded to the posts you asked questions of and were answered on, I note. Just sayin'. You don't have to but it's kinda weird to keep arguing the issue after ignoring responses you requested.

 

[TwoSix]

Wait ... are you trying to say that a sex scene in a videogame was ... poorly written?

Which is odd, most of the sex scenes I see in movies on the Internet are positively Shakespearean.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Which is odd, most of the sex scenes I see in movies on the Internet are positively Shakespearean.

So ... uh ... you ordered the pizza? With ... uh ... sausage?



(In the end, every thread at enworld eventually becomes about pizza ... )

 

[HammerMan]

Consider that a farm in Georgia run on slavery was just busted a week or so ago means it’s not exactly the past. See also the amount of other forms of human trafficking going on in the world today.

that is horrible, and I have family in GA and didn't hear about this.

 

[Scribe]

Wait ... are you trying to say that a sex scene in a videogame was ... poorly written?

Well, if you want to get down to it, everything outside of the Narrator in that game seems pretty poorly written.

 

[HammerMan]

Wait ... are you trying to say that a sex scene in a videogame was ... poorly written?

I am shocked, shocked I tell you

 

[CleverNickName]

(In the end, every thread at enworld eventually becomes about pizza ... )

(CleverNickName has entered the chat)

 

[DorkForge]

I do. Because there's absolutely zero possibility of either of you giving an inch, learning a damn thing, or even furthering the discussion of the particular topic. Also both of you are gradually drifting into namecalling, which I guess is a job for the mods but maybe don't make them mod you guys? Again neither of you is actually "wrong", but because neither of you is willing to give even an inch from absolutist positions, it's not an interesting or educational discussion.

I wasn't trying to be interesting or entertaining, I was replying to something I disagreed with on a public forum.

I didn't think I could convince them differently, you rarely change a person's belief's in an internet argument. But his isn't a private conversation, this is something anyone, anywhere in the world can read and on that basis alone I was not going to let that point of view go unchallenged. For every person that replies to a thread, there's many more that read it.

It has now run its course, and I certainly didn't mean any offense, but I'm not sorry for taking a stand in something I believe in.

I'm also not sure where the name calling thing is coming from, I don't think I referred to them by any namecalling at any point, nor was I going to. If I was interested in sitting here and calling people bad things then those posts would have been a lot shorter and simpler to write.

 

[TwoSix]

So ... uh ... you ordered the pizza? With ... uh ... sausage?

Vile miscreant, I hath ordered my repast with peppers green
and olives like the most starless of nights!
Come in, and let thou makest recompense most heartily upon my being.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

(CleverNickName has entered the chat)

You are to pizzas what I am to a proper dislike of Bards.