New Sage Advice Compendium update is out. Guess which horrible JC tweet isn't included?
There are countless tweets that don't make it into Sage Advice. Doesn't make them inaccurate or wrong.
Actually, the new update specifically cites multiple examples of a Warlock bonding with magic weapons not on their normal proficiency list. And it says nothing about proficiency being required to wield them. (Warlock, Pact of the Blade, p5)
It doesn't. The only references to making a magic item your pact weapon are in a question that's been there for years.
Characters can pick up additional weapon proficiencies through racial traits, feats, subclasses (Hexblade) and multiclassing, so it's not weird for the examples to use weapons that a warlock normally wouldn't be proficient in.
"Sage Advice is more what you call guidelines than actual rules"
It's official now: The public statements of the D&D team, or anyone else at Wizards of the Coast, are not official rulings; they are advice. Jeremy Crawford’s tweets are often a preview of rulings that will appear here.
If someone tries to pass off a tweet from the D&D staff as an "official ruling", they're officially full of it. Until it appears in the Sage Advice Compendium, it's just "advice", and should be treated as such. And if it flatly contradicts the PHB, it's probably bad advice.
There are countless tweets that don't make it into Sage Advice. Doesn't make them inaccurate or wrong.
It doesn't. The only references to making a magic item your pact weapon are in a question that's been there for years.
Characters can pick up additional weapon proficiencies through racial traits, feats, subclasses (Hexblade) and multiclassing, so it's not weird for the examples to use weapons that a warlock normally wouldn't be proficient in.
It's official now: The public statements of the D&D team, or anyone else at Wizards of the Coast, are not official rulings; they are advice. Jeremy Crawford’s tweets are often a preview of rulings that will appear here.
If someone tries to pass off a tweet from the D&D staff as an "official ruling", they're officially full of it. Until it appears in the Sage Advice Compendium, it's just "advice", and should be treated as such. And if it flatly contradicts the PHB, it's probably bad advice.
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