Official Errata, Extra Life Adventure, & Tooltip Update

by Adam Bradford
Nov 16, 2018
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Hello everyone - happy Friday!

We have three updates happening today that we wanted to summarize - the official errata changes are live for the PHB, DMG, and MM, the Lost Laboratory of Kwalish adventure is now available, and a small-but-useful update was made to monster and magic item tooltipping.

Official Errata Updates

The D&D team released official errata updates for the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual today, and those changes are up-to-date in D&D Beyond on the website.

Please note, these changes are not yet reflected in the mobile app. As you have likely seen during the mobile beta, we currently require you to re-download an entire source (including images) for any type of update for that source. This is not good for our server infrastructure or your data usage, so we are working now to change that. We plan to push the errata changes out in the mobile app for the Player's Handbook next Monday (11/19), the Dungeon Master's Guide the Monday after that (11/26), and the Monster Manual one week later (12/3).

For a full list of all the changes to the three core books, check them out via the D&D website:

Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Lost Laboratory of Kwalish is now available on D&D Beyond. The adventure explores an alternate expedition into the Barrier Peaks as players search for the lost lab of the legendary artificer. He disappeared in the peaks eons ago… as it turns out, finding a crashed planar ship and studying its technology to fuel his own research.

Proceeds from this product support Extra Life. You can head to the D&D page on Extra Life to find out more.

Monster and Magic Item Tooltip Update

And finally, a useful and fun new change has been made for creating monster and magic item tooltips on D&D Beyond. You can now designate which text you would like to display for when a tooltip processes instead of being stuck with the exact name as used in the database. An example should illustrate everything you need to know:

[ monster ]wolf;wolves[ /monster ] (don't use any spaces when you use it!)

This will output "wolves," but the tooltip will point to the "wolf" entry. This will help with plural or named versions of monsters. You can start using this now, and we will be updating links throughout the compendium to make use of this change over time.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Benz74M
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Posted Nov 16, 2018
For the errata, do we have to "remove" then choose again a feature, trait, spell to have it properly errata'd in our character sheet, or does the builder take errata automatically into account?

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Posted Nov 16, 2018
Wow, love the tooltip change. Something I didn't know I needed, but I love.

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Posted Nov 16, 2018
And this is why I love D&D Beyond and have embraced digital game books in general.

In my youth, I remember taking errata pages, cutting it up with scissors, and taping each entry like a flap on to each page, covering the paragraph where the rule had changed. I could lift up the revision and see the original text, without going back & forth between the book and the errata document.

With digital, it's all baked into the original text.

Fantastic work, fellas.

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Posted Nov 16, 2018
https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/11/12/dungeons-and-dragons-lost-laboratory-of-kwalish-/

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Posted Nov 16, 2018
Am I reading this wrong?

Monk
Deflect Missiles (p. 78). The final sentence now ends as follows: “… regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack.”

This was the original wording, and at some point they added the range (which is the way the rule appears in D&D Beyond right now). Have they backed out? Or do we need errata to the errata?

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Quote from OmegaProbe >>

Am I reading this wrong?

Monk
Deflect Missiles (p. 78). The final sentence now ends as follows: “… regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack.”

This was the original wording, and at some point they added the range (which is the way the rule appears in D&D Beyond right now). Have they backed out? Or do we need errata to the errata?

Only the items with [New] are new for this errata.

The errata document is a living correction, so you may have a book that was printed with this wording, as it is an older correction.

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Tooltip change! Whoo!

I love it. It was getting weird having to think on how to construct a sentence to fit the standard creature's name. :p

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Quote from MellieDM >>

Quote from OmegaProbe >>

Am I reading this wrong?

Monk
Deflect Missiles (p. 78). The final sentence now ends as follows: “… regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack.”

This was the original wording, and at some point they added the range (which is the way the rule appears in D&D Beyond right now). Have they backed out? Or do we need errata to the errata?

Only the items with [New] are new for this errata.

The errata document is a living correction, so you may have a book that was printed with this wording, as it is an older correction.

My first print ends in "and the missile counts as a monk weapon attack.". My newer -less than two year old- print ends with ", which has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.". But that aside, it doesn't change these two facts:

The errata, old or new, shows the latest correction and it says it should end with "as a monk weapon attack.".

D&D Beyond's description ends with "and a long range of 60 feet.".

So, my original question still stands: Am I reading the errata wrong? Do we need to errata the errata?
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Posted Nov 17, 2018
When is Lost Laboratory being added to the mobile app? I just purchased it and it's not showing up there yet.

Is it happening alongside one of the errata updates or at some other point?

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Posted Nov 17, 2018
Quote from OmegaProbe >>

Quote from MellieDM >>

Quote from OmegaProbe >>

Am I reading this wrong?

Monk
Deflect Missiles (p. 78). The final sentence now ends as follows: “… regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack.”

This was the original wording, and at some point they added the range (which is the way the rule appears in D&D Beyond right now). Have they backed out? Or do we need errata to the errata?

Only the items with [New] are new for this errata.

The errata document is a living correction, so you may have a book that was printed with this wording, as it is an older correction.

My first print ends in "and the missile counts as a monk weapon attack.". My newer -less than two year old- print ends with ", which has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.". But that aside, it doesn't change these two facts:

The errata, old or new, shows the latest correction and it says it should end with "as a monk weapon attack.".

D&D Beyond's description ends with "and a long range of 60 feet.".

So, my original question still stands: Am I reading the errata wrong? Do we need to errata the errata?

Reread the revised Deflect Missiles description:

You make this attack with proficiency, regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack, which has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.

It's there, just not where the errata says. You do seem to be right that Deflect Missiles was changed even though it wasn't marked as "new".

The range was added in a previous errata:

Deflect Missiles (p. 78). The range of the monk’s ranged attack is 20/60 feet.

The latest errata says:

Deflect Missiles (p. 78). The final sentence now ends as follows: “... regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack.”

I think it might just have been reworded.
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I came across a Reddit thread suggesting that the change to the lich's hit dice was a mistake, but that's a WotC problem, not a D&D Beyond problem...

The Demilich section of the MM says:

Undead Nature. A demilich doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. So great is a demilich’s will to survive that it always has the maximum number of hit points for its Hit Dice, instead of average hit points.

This means that while the hit dice adjustment would be correct if the demilich didn't have this trait (i.e. 80 is the average of 32d4, not 20d4)... It does have this trait, so either WotC shouldn't have changed the number of hit dice or it should have gotten rid of this trait as well.

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Will the tooltip update apply for conditions too? I'd love to be able to write a sentence with the word poison instead of poisoned.

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When can we expect the tooltip change to apply to items as well?

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Posted Nov 17, 2018
Let's see now . . .

Yay! Plural tooltips! Yay! Finally! Did I mention yay?

Interesting formatting on those plural tooltips.

Hmm. . . vegepygmies riding thornies

winter wolves and wolves in winter

I assume this new trick has other applications.

An alternate Expedition to the Barrier Peaks? That's . . . oddly amusing.

Errata? Good, good.
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Quote from Benz74M >>

For the errata, do we have to "remove" then choose again a feature, trait, spell to have it properly errata'd in our character sheet, or does the builder take errata automatically into account?

The builder takes the errata automatically.

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Are we supposed to have access to the Lost Laboratory of Kwalish adventure without purchasing it? As far as I know I don't own it and none of the people in any campaigns where content sharing is turned on own it either but I can still read the entire thing.

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Quote from LegionDarrath >>

Are we supposed to have access to the Lost Laboratory of Kwalish adventure without purchasing it? As far as I know I don't own it and none of the people in any campaigns where content sharing is turned on own it either but I can still read the entire thing.

No, it needs a purchase. Check better with your players/DMs.

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Posted Nov 19, 2018
Any chance we could have the tooltip update for [item] tags along side the [magicItem] and [monster] tags?

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Quote from burlmc >>

Will the tooltip update apply for conditions too? I'd love to be able to write a sentence with the word poison instead of poisoned.

Quote from SabreRunner >>

When can we expect the tooltip change to apply to items as well?

Quote from Paradox42 >>

Any chance we could have the tooltip update for [item] tags along side the [magicItem] and [monster] tags?

We just updated all the remaining tooltips to allow you to override the display text. They follow the same usage pattern as BadEye describes in the changelog above.

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Posted Nov 20, 2018
Glee!

Thanks! :D

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