I am thinking of making a D&D comic/channel, namely to tackle the informative side a bit more than just going the same route of the Order of the Stick. However, I'm also admittedly a wall-flower when it comes to social media, so I don't know where all the 'official' rulings made by the rules designers after books are released. Does anyone know of a site/page which covers these posts?
To clarify, I'm not talking about erratas, but the rulings made by them about more flavor-related details. Key example would be Jeremy Crawford and their comments on how skeletons don't have to be complete skeletons.
Nothing else is as official as that. "Officially" even tweets by Crawford or Mearls aren't any more reliable than these forums if they aren't in the SAC.
Another way to get official ruling is by writing them directly at sageadvice@wizards.com
According to the Sage Advice Compendium - it is the ONLY source of official rulings.
"Official rulings on how to interpret rules are made here in the Sage Advice Compendium. The public statements of the D&D team, or anyone else at Wizards of the Coast, are not official rulings; they are advice."
A reply from an email address wouldn't even count as a "public statement" unless the response is widely distributed and then it would also specifically be considered advice and not an official ruling because it is not published in the compendium.
Officially :), the SAC is the only source of official rulings.
The SAC is very rarely updated and many of the "Sage Advice" replies provided by the D&D design team over the years have never made it into the SAC leaving them as unofficial as any ruling or suggestion made by anyone else. DMs are free to run the game however they like, the "unofficial" sage advice can be an interesting read but there are often examples where that advice either specifically contradicts the rules as written or in some cases contradicts earlier "sage advice" on the same topic - often by the same person because they changed their mind between the two replies.
Another way to get official ruling is by writing them directly at sageadvice@wizards.com
According to the Sage Advice Compendium - it is the ONLY source of official rulings.
"Official rulings on how to interpret rules are made here in the Sage Advice Compendium. The public statements of the D&D team, or anyone else at Wizards of the Coast, are not official rulings; they are advice."
A reply from an email address wouldn't even count as a "public statement" unless the response is widely distributed and then it would also specifically be considered advice and not an official ruling because it is not published in the compendium.
Officially :), the SAC is the only source of official rulings.
The SAC is very rarely updated and many of the "Sage Advice" replies provided by the D&D design team over the years have never made it into the SAC leaving them as unofficial as any ruling or suggestion made by anyone else. DMs are free to run the game however they like, the "unofficial" sage advice can be an interesting read but there are often examples where that advice either specifically contradicts the rules as written or in some cases contradicts earlier "sage advice" on the same topic - often by the same person because they changed their mind between the two replies.
Awesome, thanks a bunch for sharing this with me, guys! I really appreciate knowing where to look now.
I am thinking of making a D&D comic/channel, namely to tackle the informative side a bit more than just going the same route of the Order of the Stick. However, I'm also admittedly a wall-flower when it comes to social media, so I don't know where all the 'official' rulings made by the rules designers after books are released. Does anyone know of a site/page which covers these posts?
To clarify, I'm not talking about erratas, but the rulings made by them about more flavor-related details. Key example would be Jeremy Crawford and their comments on how skeletons don't have to be complete skeletons.
The only place to find "official" rulings is sage advice compendium.
Nothing else is as official as that. "Officially" even tweets by Crawford or Mearls aren't any more reliable than these forums if they aren't in the SAC.
The other thing is errata. If you have paper copies of the books you should check for errata here
https://dnd.wizards.com/sage-advice/book-updates
Another way to get official ruling is by writing them directly at sageadvice@wizards.com
According to the Sage Advice Compendium - it is the ONLY source of official rulings.
"Official rulings on how to interpret rules are made here in the Sage Advice Compendium. The public statements of the D&D team, or anyone else at Wizards of the Coast, are not official rulings; they are advice."
A reply from an email address wouldn't even count as a "public statement" unless the response is widely distributed and then it would also specifically be considered advice and not an official ruling because it is not published in the compendium.
Officially :), the SAC is the only source of official rulings.
The SAC is very rarely updated and many of the "Sage Advice" replies provided by the D&D design team over the years have never made it into the SAC leaving them as unofficial as any ruling or suggestion made by anyone else. DMs are free to run the game however they like, the "unofficial" sage advice can be an interesting read but there are often examples where that advice either specifically contradicts the rules as written or in some cases contradicts earlier "sage advice" on the same topic - often by the same person because they changed their mind between the two replies.
Sage advice, advice XD
"Anyone can smith at the cosmic anvil, yet only I can forge a weapon as good as thee."
My Homebrew Please click it, they have my family.
And yet that emailing suggestion was originally referenced in Sage Advice! ☺
Awesome, thanks a bunch for sharing this with me, guys! I really appreciate knowing where to look now.