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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9425374" data-attributes="member: 6801228">While I get some of the intent behind this, your example statblock does what I immediately feared this would do. I don't want to have to look in two or three places to get a full picture of the monster. It may seem like being amphibious isn't important, until it is. This may make the statblock easier to use in terms of straightforward combats, but what the actual effect in practice is making everything have two statblocks I need to reference. In terms of spell descriptions, it is a nice thought, but practically speaking, no publisher is ever going to republish every spell they use in the monsters in the MM. It would balloon the size of the book, and be cumbersome if the DM ever decided to alter any of those spells.This is one of those weird things. For example, you are arguing that we could take out things like Battle-Ready which is obvious, and change things to "melee roll" or "3d6 poison" but at the same time, you want to break out poison and poisoned because it will cause confusion. I think you can do many of the things you propose here, but I think readability would suffer.There is no current bloodied level in the statblock, and I don't see the value in adding one.The dragon has proficiency in initiative rolls. The fact that this is a "numerical mystery" I think just heightens the argument that things like Battle-Ready are good to have in the statblock.</blockquote>

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