As discussed in the introduction of the Monster Manual (page 10), a monster’s attack action is designated as either a weapon attack or a spell attack. See the lich’s Paralyzing Touch action and the cambion’s Fire Ray action for other examples of actions that are spell attacks. Monsters have had spell attacks since the Monster Manual (2014). What was the motivation for adding this type of action to the game? This type of action isn’t new. Recent books include monster stat blocks-like the dragon blessed in Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons and the Silverquill apprentice in Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos-that contain actions designated as spell attacks, rather than weapon attacks. Drow are united by an ancestral connection to the Underdark, not by worship of Lolth-a god some of them have never heard of. The new text more accurately describes the place of drow in the D&D multiverse and correctly situates them among the other branches of the elf family, each of which was shaped by an environment in the earliest days of the multiverse: forests (wood elves), places of ancient magic on the Material Plane (high elves), oceans (sea elves), the Feywild (eladrin), the Shadowfell (shadar-kai), and the Underdark (drow). This new text replaces a description that confused the culture of Menzoberranzan-a city in the grip of Lolth’s cult in the Forgotten Realms-with drow themselves. Wherever the cult lurks, drow heroes stand on the front lines in the war against it, seeking to sunder Lolth’s web. Eberron, Krynn, and other realms have escaped the cult’s influence-for now. The cult of the god Lolth, Queen of Spiders, has corrupted some of the oldest drow cities, especially in the worlds of Oerth and Toril.
Your kin tend to have stark white hair and grayish skin of many hues. You are at home in shadows and, thanks to your innate magic, learn to conjure forth both light and darkness. The changes in those PDFs appear in recent printings of the affected books, and the changes will also appear on D&D Beyond and anywhere else the books are available digitally.Ī notable change in the errata docs above is the revised text for drow in the Player’s Handbook:Īs a drow, you are infused with the magic of the Underdark, an underground realm of wonders and horrors rarely seen on the surface above. The following errata PDFs list changes to those books: Over the past year, several D&D books have been tweaked. I then answer a handful of rules questions, focusing on queries related to Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons and Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos.
This Sage Advice installment presents updates to several books. D&D books occasionally receive corrections and other updates to their rules and story.