D&D General A Class's Spell List Should be Listed With the Class Description.

A Class's Spell List Should be Listed With the Class Description (T/F)

  • True.

    Votes: 52 61.9%
  • False.

    Votes: 32 38.1%

  • Poll closed .

Leatherhead

Possibly a Idiot.
The solution seems obvious: Make the spell lists unique to each class. I mean. There's no sensible reason why a Cleric would need access to a list of Wizard spells, for example.

This would also be beneficial in that it would require that spell lists contain only unique spells. It would make the bard more interesting since they would have unique bard spells. The wizard would have unique wizard spells etc. etc.
That's how 4e handled it!
 

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Leatherhead

Possibly a Idiot.
That personally seems backwards to me. I look at spell lists, see a spell that sounds like it might be cool and then I read the description if I am not already familiar enough with it. I guess I never just read random spells and then hope my class has access to it - that seems inefficient.
Now that I find hard to believe, you have never looked up a spell, only to have a different spell on the same or opposite page catch your eye?
 

Argyle King

Legend
Spell List - yes (with a page number in parentheses)

Spell Description- not necessarily

Edit: I would also be okay with class spell lists (and similar things) all being in an appendix at the back of the book.

Having a useful appendices, a better index, and other such "normal" parts of a book would be a big improvement over the original PHB.
 

el-remmen

Moderator Emeritus
This is one of many, many reasons why I am never going back to running games through physical books.

On a digital character sheet, there is no problem. You create the character, and then you scan up and down the spell lists, sorting as desired, and clicking on a spell to get full details as needed.
I mean that’s nice if it works for you. But I spend so much time on a computer and other electronics that I like to just spread out on a table with a notebook and books to do prep and consider anytime I need to bust out the laptop during a game (except for virtual games of course) a failure.
 



el-remmen

Moderator Emeritus
Now that I find hard to believe, you have never looked up a spell, only to have a different spell on the same or opposite page catch your eye?
Much more likely as a DM than as a player. But yeah, that has happened but I never wondered if it was part of the class list. 🤷🏾‍♂️
 



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