So I finally made the 5e PHB the latest addition to my collection. I started to read it and saw that 5e has continued the D&D tradition of glaring typos. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy hunting for these things. They've been there since the Little Brown Books and I think I would miss them if an edition didn't have at least one error. I just started reading it last night and right there in the introduction is the phrase "free reign". Um, the phrase is "free rein". Yes, the DM is the supreme overlord of his or her world, but the phrase is meant to be compared to letting horses run uncontrolled, not a monarch with no checks and balances to his or her power. Seriously, I do find this sort of thing in the books endearing.
Thanks for this new edition, thanks for art that finally takes female characters out of the boudoir-photography "armor" and puts them in something sensible (and safe for work!), and thanks for keeping the game alive.
I did not actually know that it was rein rather than reign in that instance, so maybe the author didn't either?
Either way, I am glad to see you aren't trying to use typographical errors to condemn the book like some other people (with completely unrealistic expectations) are.
I think the DM should have free reign too.
Luckily it didn't say free rain, because that would just be silly.
Wuzzard wrote:
First a feet tax, now a rain tax. Inconceivable.
Satyrn wrote:
Satyrn wrote:
Or a spell tax, i.e. $0.01 per word corrected by a spell checker.
I have never read a first printing of any text book without a typo, even later printings for that matter. LOTR was pretty much edited for every printing throughout Tolkien's life. Typo's are a fact of life.
Just because it makes for an interesting play on words, doesn't mean we should give the writer(s) any benefit of doubt. Let's skewer them for something so banal as to be laughable instead. That's way more pompous and self-aggrandizing.
Satyrn wrote:
I wish you had mistyped that as "pompatus and self-aggrandizing" so I could make a laughable joke about gangsters of banal love.
... I feel like I should apologize for that.
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biotech66 wrote:
Best thread of the day, thank you for the laughs.
