No matter how good those tools might be, they need a group of players to bring them to life and a DM to guide their use. The rules are a tool, and we want our tools to be as effective as possible. The game’s rules are meant to help organize, and even inspire, the action of a D&D campaign. The Role of Rules Why even have a column like Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling? Rules are a big part of what makes D&D a game, rather than simply improvised storytelling. An answer that has become obsolete isn’t included in this compilation. Compiled Answers Sage Advice answers that are relevant to the current state of the rules are compiled here. One exception: the game’s rules manager, Jeremy Crawford can make official rulings and usually does so in Sage Advice and on Twitter. The public statements of the D&D team, or anyone else at Wizards of the Coast, are not official rulings they are advice. Official Rulings Official rulings on how to interpret unclear rules are made in Sage Advice. We have also issued corrections for the adventures Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Princes of the Apocalypse: A corrected version of any of these books includes one of the following lines near the bottom of its credits page: This printing includes corrections to the first printing. ![]() Errata Corrections have been issued for the early printings of the fifth edition Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master’s Guide and can be downloaded at the following locations: The corrections have been incorporated into more recent printings of the books, as well as into the Basic Rules. ![]() Dungeon Master’s Guide (abbreviated DMG) The free Basic Rules contains portions of those three books and can be downloaded here: Play in the Adventurers League, the D&D organized play program, is also governed by the Adventurers League Player’s Guide.Rules References The fifth edition of D&D has three official rulebooks, each of which was first published in 2014: If you have a question that you’d like addressed in Sage Advice, please contact the game’s rules manager, Jeremy Crawford, on Twitter If the question is too long for a tweet, please email it to. This document compiles most of them and organizes them by topic, after first noting what the game’s official rules references are. Sage Advice Compendium Questions and answers about the rules of fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons appear in Sage Advice, a monthly column on the D&D website ().
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