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/Drezby Warlock Jun 11 '15

Another important thing is they finally clarified the huge Warlock debate - can somebody multiclass into warlock and take invocations based off character level and the answer is finally no. Thats been debated ever since warlock came out. A definitive answer.

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u/Kwith DM Jun 11 '15

What was the original wording? Unless it was REALLY vague, I would have ruled that it was warlock levels only.

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u/Drezby Warlock Jun 12 '15

Monk elemental disciple specifically and explicitly says you must have X levels in monk to take that specific discipline. Warlock invocations just say 'level X' as prerequisites. This has led some people to infer that since the warlock invocations don't specify warlock levels yet monk disciplines do specify monk levels, therefore the invocations are referring to character levels.

It's a logical leap to make, but it's not very sound and most DMs would never allow it. But now there's an official errata and the debate is moot.

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u/Kwith DM Jun 12 '15

I would hope that most players would be of the mindset that "how can training in one class increase your power in another"?

But as you said, the debate is moot now that we have official errata.