Druid Cantrips per day 4 or 5?


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In the text about spellcasting for Druids it says you prepare 5 cantrips perday, which is on par with other spell casters, but the spells per day chart lists only five. Which one is correct.


To clarify:

Page 130 second paragraph of primal spell casting states “at 1rst level, you can prepare two first level spells and five cantrips

However on page132, chart 3-11, the cantrips are listed as 4

Can we get clarification on if this was a misprint and how it was intended?


I would say that barring errata or official comment by a developer, when there is a conflict about what something does, we should default to the text of the thing itself as preeminent

"Primal Spellcasting" says

Quote:
At 1st level, you can prepare two 1st-level spells and five cantrips

So that is what I am going with, over the chart.


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Especially due to the fact the examples characters reference 5 cantrips.


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The online version of the rules has 5 as the number of cantrips in both the text and table as well.


So you can prepare 5 cantrips - am I to understand you can cast any of those 5 as often as you like?

Which is completely different than the leveled spells, whre you can prepare a number of spells and can cast each prepared spell once (meaning you might want to prepare the same spell more than once)?


Emergent wrote:

So you can prepare 5 cantrips - am I to understand you can cast any of those 5 as often as you like?

Which is completely different than the leveled spells, whre you can prepare a number of spells and can cast each prepared spell once (meaning you might want to prepare the same spell more than once)?

Yup.


This is a pretty big (as in embarrassingly visible) errata.


LotsOfLore wrote:
This is a pretty big (as in embarrassingly visible) errata.

4 to 5 in one table, with every other reference giving 5, is not a big errata. It's a typo on a table.

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