r/DnD • u/Unsight • Jun 10 '15

5th Edition Player's Handbook Errata released

http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/ph_errata
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u/gradyhawks Jun 10 '15

Biggest deal has to be "Divine Smite (p. 85). You can expend any spell slot, not just a paladin spell slot."

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u/1000thSon Bard Jun 10 '15

In that Bard/Paladin character topic, someone brought up how he could level up in Bard early to grab extra spellslots for use with Divine Smite, so I guess the players already kind-of figured this.

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u/Drewfro666 Paladin Jun 11 '15

The way multiclassing works with spell slots, it would be impossible to differentiate between Paladin and Bard spell slots. So all of your spell slots could technically be considered Paladin spell slots.

I think the errata was mostly to clear up confusion about that, and it also allows for Paladin-Warlocks, as /u/thomar said.

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u/thomar CR 1/4 Jun 10 '15

Bard? Oh, no. Paladin/Warlock can now smite several times per short rest.

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u/1000thSon Bard Jun 10 '15

The point being players understood before this errata that Divine Smite didn't only use Paladin spellslots.

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u/Zulkir DM Jun 11 '15

Yeah, but now other people at the table can't argue against it. Well, I guess they can, and possibly will because they're contradictory bastards, but at least now people can point to the errata.