D&D: Sage Advice To Make Triumphant Return “Soon”
Along with updated core rules and a new SRD, WotC also announced the return of the popular Sage Advice column.
At this point, it sounds like you should call it a comeback despite the fact that Sage Advice has been there for years. That’s right, folks. According to an announcement from WotC, Sage Advice is making a comeback sometime soon.
If you’re unfamiliar, Sage Advice is a long-running D&D tradition, dating back to a time before Wizards of the Coast even owned D&D. It began life as a sort of advice column for geeks, because you have to understand that back in the days before the internet, the hobby lived and died and was reborn in magazines.
And Sage Advice was a column in Dragon magazine where players could send in their rules questions to be interpreted from on high, and they’d get the answers whether they liked it or not. That’s pretty much been Sage Advice’s purpose since its inception back in Dragon Magazine #30.
Its most recent iteration involved Jeremy Crawford answering questions on Twitter and then combining some of the results into a compendium. The more things change, the more they stay the same. But now, after a long hiatus, Sage Advice will be back.
Sage Advice Returns
Yesterday, as part of WotC’s announcements about updates to the core rules and next week’s release of the 5.2 SRD, the company also said that the venerable advice column would be making a return. Finally, a chance to answer some of the more eye-watering questions that come up in D&D. And whether you agree or disagree, you’ll learn something.
“The Sage Advice Compendium collects questions and answers about rules interactions in Dungeons & Dragons. With the release of the 2024 Core Rulebooks, Sage Advice will be updated to encompass the new material presented in these books. It will continue to be updated as more questions are brought up by the community.
There’s no date set for the return of Sage Advice, but I imagine it won’t be too long after the new SRD is released out into the wild. People can’t help but come up with the most corner-case scenarios and questions about if that would work. Or “Are elves mammals?” Usually, if you see a question like that, you probably want to run, because questions about milk aren’t too far off.
Sage advice is fine and all, but we need the return of a mailbag type situation!
