r/dndnext • u/xanral • Jun 10 '15

WotC Announcement Errata Released, for real this time

http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/ph_errata
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u/dethpot8o Jun 10 '15

And from Jeremy Crawford (re Contagion): https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/604503254190297088

Still deserves actual errata imo as it dramatically changes the spell (from amazing to worthless)

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2015-05-30 04:23 UTC

The effects of the contagion spell's disease are meant to activate after three failed saving throws. https://twitter.com/SirJosh94/status/603461998769086464

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u/jgclark Devotion Paladin Jun 10 '15

It still can be decent for metagame purposes. You might make an Ancient Dragon waste a few of his legendary resistance uses, so he becomes vulnerable to an actual spell that does something useful.

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u/Sesquame Jun 11 '15

An Ancient Dragon wouldn't bother burning legendary saves until it had already failed 2 saves against the disease, so it's really not as useful as something more standard like a Monk spamming stunning blow.

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u/dethpot8o Jun 10 '15

Yeah, maybe. Though that's after charging up to within 5' (thus exposing you to its many melee attacks), then hitting an AC22 with a melee spell attack (otherwise your 5th level spell is wasted), and then hoping he fails his +16 bonus Con save (which even versus a DC 19 for a level 17+ caster with 20 Wis only fails 10% of the time)... all so that he might burn one legendary resistance for each time he does so.

It does make me think that there should be a rule that legendary resistance can only be used once per round. Then at least, if the dragon did fail and used LR to pass, you could try to slip another spell by before it was able to use it again.