This document corrects and clarifies some text in Storm King’s Thunder. These changes appear in recent printings of the book and have been applied across D&D Beyond.
Chapter 1
Tower of Zephyros ( p. 33)
In the third paragraph after the boxed text, “recovered from the madness” has changed to “recovered from the insanity.” In the sixth paragraph after the boxed text, the second bullet has changed to “He has an Intelligence score of 18 (+4) and the Spellcasting action option described below.” Zephyros’s Spellcasting trait has been replaced with the following action option:
Treasure (p. 35)
Throughout this section, “pixie dust” has changed to “faerie dust.”
Development (p. 35)
Throughout this section, “pixie dust” has changed to “faerie dust.”
Chapter 3
Northlanders (p. 64)
In the first paragraph, the sentence “A few tribes of Northlanders ... the present-day denizens of Icewind Dale.” has been replaced with “A few clans of Northlanders explored the monster-infested interior of the Savage Frontier, and they became the ancestors of the Uthgardt tribes and the present-day denizens of Icewind Dale.” The last paragraph has changed to the following:
Reghed Barbarians (p. 64)
The heading of this section is now “Reghed Nomads.”
Uthgardt Barbarians (p. 65)
The heading of this section is now “Uthgardt,” The first paragraph has changed to “The Uthgardt are a black-haired and blue-eyed people—large, hale, territorial folk who don’t trust outsiders. Few Uthgardt are willing to trade with non-Uthgardt settlements. Many are raiders who pillage and destroy any caravan or homestead they come across.”
Orcs and Half-Orcs (p. 68)
This section is now called “Orcs,” and the text has been replaced by the following:
Random Wilderness Encounters (p. 69)
The “Barbarians” row in the table is now called “Uthgardt marauders.” The corresponding “Barbarians” random encounter is now called “Uthgardt Marauders” and has moved to the end of the “Random Wilderness Encounters” section.
Orcs (p. 71)
The first paragraph of this random encounter has been replaced with “The characters come across 2d6 + 2 orcs. There is a 75 percent chance that the orcs are friendly and looking for a suitable place to build a homestead. Otherwise, the orcs are hostile and have prisoners in tow. A sample group of prisoners is presented here, but you can create others.”
Flint Rock (p. 84)
In the first sentence, the parenthetical reference now references the “Uthgardt” section.
Klauthen Vale (p. 95)
The sixth paragraph has changed to “Klauth is an ancient red dragon, with the Dual Wand Wielder trait, Special Equipment trait, and Spellcasting action option described below, all of which increase his challenge rating to 25 (75,000 XP):”. The Innate Spellcasting and Spellcasting traits have been replaced with the following Spellcasting action option:
Kryptgarden Forest (p. 96)
The last paragraph of the section and the Innate Spellcasting trait have been replaced with the following:
Morgur’s Mound (p. 99)
In the first sentence, the parenthetical reference now references the “Uthgardt” section.
Shadowtop Cathedral (p. 107)
The last sentence of the fourth paragraph and the Spellcasting trait have been replaced with the following:
Suggested Encounter (p. 113)
The third bullet (“They have the cloud giant’s Innate Spellcasting and Keen Smell features”) has been cut.
In the fourth paragraph’s last sentence, “Hekaton Returns!” has changed to “Harshnag Returns!”
Chapter 7
The Frost Giant Jarl (p. 165)
The fourth bulleted item and the subsequent Spellcasting trait have been replaced with the following:
Chapter 9
The Countess (p. 192)
The fourth bullet point has changed to “She has an Intelligence score of 16 (+3) and gains the Spellcasting action option described below.” The Spellcasting trait is now a Spellcasting action:
Chapter 11
Slarkrethel (p. 224)
The second bullet point has changed to “It gains the Legendary Resistance trait and the Spellcasting action option described below, and it casts foresight on itself before it attacks.” Slarkrethel’s Spellcasting trait is now a Spellcasting action:
Appendix A
Hoard of the Dragon Queen (p. 231)
The heading is now “Tyranny of Dragons,” and the first three paragraphs of this section have been replaced with the following text:
Appendix C
Crag Cat (p. 240)
The crag cat’s type has changed from “Beast” to “Monstrosity.” Additionally, its movement has changed to “40 ft., climb 30 ft.”
Iymrith (p. 241)
The second bullet point is now “She gains the Spellcasting and Change Shape action options, both described below.” The Innate Spellcasting trait text has changed to the following action option:
Maegera the Dawn Titan (p. 241)
The Innate Spellcasting trait is now a Spellcasting action:
Tressym (p. 242)
The tressym’s type is now “Monstrosity,” and its alignment is now “Any Alignment.”
Uthgardt Shaman (p. 243)
In the stat block, the alignment is now “Any Alignment,” and the Innate Spellcasting trait is now a Spellcasting action:
The first paragraph of descriptive text has been replaced by the following:
In the “Black Raven” section of the sidebar, “polymorph (into a raven only)” is now “polymorph (self only; into a raven only).” In the “Elk” section of the sidebar, “find steed (elk only)” has changed to “find steed (cast as 1 action; elk only).” In the “Griffon” section of the sidebar, “beast sense (birds only)” has been added to the spell list before fly. The spells in the “Sky Pony” section of the sidebar are now “gust of wind, witch bolt.” These changes reduce the number of spells per tribe to two, and all the spells listed can be cast as 1 action.
Yakfolk (p. 244–245)
The Yakfolk description up to the “Skin Crawlers” section has changed to the following (the “Skin Crawlers” section is unchanged):
Appendix D
Naxene Drathkala (p. 252)
Naxene’s Spellcasting trait has been replaced with the following action option:
Othovir (p. 255)
Othovir’s Spellcasting trait has been replaced with the following action option:
Storm Giant (p. 256)
The storm giant’s Spellcasting trait has been replaced with the following action option:
