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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5898886"><p>I said "needlessly inflating flavor with rules text". EX: denoting range, size, potency, if the spell is volumetric or not, if it affects enemies, allies, or all creatures, what damage types it is, fire, arcane, shadow, necrotic, ect... if the opponenet needs to make a saving throw or if it's vs touch, regular AC or NADs.</p><p></p><p>Flavor text should add to the flavor of the spell. If a sentence is spent on flavor and then 3 more make verbose attempts at flavorizing rules text, I think that just ends up creating convoluded and confusing spells.</p><p></p><p>I would rather see:</p><p>Fireball</p><p>*rules*</p><p>You wiggle your fingers and say funny words and shoot a blazing ball of fire from your fingertips that ignites flamable objects and does 5d6 damage. </p><p></p><p>Thats flavorful, while including the basic rules.</p><p></p><p>Adding in "This spell only affects enemies in a 30' blast centered within 50' of the caster. In addition Fireball does Ongoing 1d4 to all enemies that failed their reflex save. A successful reflex save ends this ongoing damage. Targets taking ongoing damage are considered <em>aflame</em> and take a -2 to their AC and reflex."</p><p></p><p>That's not flavorful, that's just rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 5898886"] I said "needlessly inflating flavor with rules text". EX: denoting range, size, potency, if the spell is volumetric or not, if it affects enemies, allies, or all creatures, what damage types it is, fire, arcane, shadow, necrotic, ect... if the opponenet needs to make a saving throw or if it's vs touch, regular AC or NADs. Flavor text should add to the flavor of the spell. If a sentence is spent on flavor and then 3 more make verbose attempts at flavorizing rules text, I think that just ends up creating convoluded and confusing spells. I would rather see: Fireball *rules* You wiggle your fingers and say funny words and shoot a blazing ball of fire from your fingertips that ignites flamable objects and does 5d6 damage. Thats flavorful, while including the basic rules. Adding in "This spell only affects enemies in a 30' blast centered within 50' of the caster. In addition Fireball does Ongoing 1d4 to all enemies that failed their reflex save. A successful reflex save ends this ongoing damage. Targets taking ongoing damage are considered [I]aflame[/I] and take a -2 to their AC and reflex." That's not flavorful, that's just rules. [/QUOTE]
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