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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7172464" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>You're absolutely right, of course. </p><p>Maybe it's because I've run a lot of demo games and Encounters seasons, and even a long campaign with a few casual players who just never get to that point, but I'm happy to put up with the precise language in return for the clarity and consistency it provides. </p><p></p><p>But, say, had the CB been a halfway decent set of software, it could have gone further with the 'short description' thing, and had a 'condensed sheets' option with all your powers, items & feats on one page, with just enough info for an experienced player already familiar with the character to use them. I mean, with the off-line builder I could squeeze down the character sheet to 1 page, and edit class/race features and feats for brevity, but powers were always the 9/page cards, or the useless list, nothing between - and the on-line builder is horrid, that way, you can choose the look of the first page, after that it's just space-wasting absurdity, while leaving out key information, like, oh, your Paragon Path. </p><p></p><p>(was this the thread with the intentionally-killed-4e-conspiracy-theory, because there's another smoking gun: "oh, 4e is too complicated, we're going to make it simpler with Essentials - in support of that, have a minimum 5-page character sheet!" WTF?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7172464, member: 996"] You're absolutely right, of course. Maybe it's because I've run a lot of demo games and Encounters seasons, and even a long campaign with a few casual players who just never get to that point, but I'm happy to put up with the precise language in return for the clarity and consistency it provides. But, say, had the CB been a halfway decent set of software, it could have gone further with the 'short description' thing, and had a 'condensed sheets' option with all your powers, items & feats on one page, with just enough info for an experienced player already familiar with the character to use them. I mean, with the off-line builder I could squeeze down the character sheet to 1 page, and edit class/race features and feats for brevity, but powers were always the 9/page cards, or the useless list, nothing between - and the on-line builder is horrid, that way, you can choose the look of the first page, after that it's just space-wasting absurdity, while leaving out key information, like, oh, your Paragon Path. (was this the thread with the intentionally-killed-4e-conspiracy-theory, because there's another smoking gun: "oh, 4e is too complicated, we're going to make it simpler with Essentials - in support of that, have a minimum 5-page character sheet!" WTF?) [/QUOTE]
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