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<blockquote data-quote="Fallstorm" data-source="post: 5901768" data-attributes="member: 55683"><p>Morrus, </p><p> </p><p>Here is what is the confusing part for me. You keep talking as if there was a significant difference in Pathinder/3.5 descriptions of spells and Gygaxian 1E/2E descriptions of spells when there absolutely is no difference unless you are perhaps talking about vocabulary used. For example, you mention not wanting long walls of text and the sleep exampe you give is true of this, but when I look at spells overall for 3.5 the spells descriptions are equally verbose if not more so than those presented in 1E/2E. For example again just turning to a random page in the DnD 3.5 PHB the spell "Fireball" on page 231 is a full 3 paragraphs long. 3 paragraphs for simple spell like fireball. Flipping randomly I come across a spell "Holy Aura" which is about 6 paragraphs long. So again, I don't really see a difference between 2E and 3.5 in terms of spell description because if you say you lean towards 3.5 spell descriptions those were/are fairly long consisting of multiple paragraphs just like it was in 2E.</p><p> </p><p>Also, I fail to understand why you find my objection to the space given to spells in the 3.5 vs. the 4E PHB curious. The class section of the 4E PHB, which si where all the powers are located last from page 52-171 of the 4E PHB. That is a total of 119 pages given to the power system of describing what characters can do. Note, that these pages also contain descriptions of the character class, etc so it the entire 119 pages are not just dedicated to spells. The spell section of the DnD 3.5 PHB last from page 181-303 that is a total of 122 pages more than in the 4E PHB and those pages are nothing but lines of text with no class descriptions or anything else thrown in. So again, it is truly not my intent to be contentioius on here but I just don't get the point you are making and wonder if there is not just a tad bit of romanticazation going on when it comes to prior editions of the game?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fallstorm, post: 5901768, member: 55683"] Morrus, Here is what is the confusing part for me. You keep talking as if there was a significant difference in Pathinder/3.5 descriptions of spells and Gygaxian 1E/2E descriptions of spells when there absolutely is no difference unless you are perhaps talking about vocabulary used. For example, you mention not wanting long walls of text and the sleep exampe you give is true of this, but when I look at spells overall for 3.5 the spells descriptions are equally verbose if not more so than those presented in 1E/2E. For example again just turning to a random page in the DnD 3.5 PHB the spell "Fireball" on page 231 is a full 3 paragraphs long. 3 paragraphs for simple spell like fireball. Flipping randomly I come across a spell "Holy Aura" which is about 6 paragraphs long. So again, I don't really see a difference between 2E and 3.5 in terms of spell description because if you say you lean towards 3.5 spell descriptions those were/are fairly long consisting of multiple paragraphs just like it was in 2E. Also, I fail to understand why you find my objection to the space given to spells in the 3.5 vs. the 4E PHB curious. The class section of the 4E PHB, which si where all the powers are located last from page 52-171 of the 4E PHB. That is a total of 119 pages given to the power system of describing what characters can do. Note, that these pages also contain descriptions of the character class, etc so it the entire 119 pages are not just dedicated to spells. The spell section of the DnD 3.5 PHB last from page 181-303 that is a total of 122 pages more than in the 4E PHB and those pages are nothing but lines of text with no class descriptions or anything else thrown in. So again, it is truly not my intent to be contentioius on here but I just don't get the point you are making and wonder if there is not just a tad bit of romanticazation going on when it comes to prior editions of the game? [/QUOTE]
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