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[5e Statblock] Please add "OR" or "AND" in the list of monster attacks
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<blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7610451" data-attributes="member: 6857506"><p>I'm a little confused. You seem already to understand that there is an implicit OR connecting all the Action options. (I assume this is what you meant by Attack options.) AFAIK, there are no exceptions to this. Are there exceptions that I am not thinking of?</p><p></p><p>For Multiattack, can you give an example of a Multiattack description in which "and" is not present but would make things clearer if added?</p><p></p><p>Or are you just talking about the difference between "and" and "AND"? I will admit that I often rewrite stat blocks to eliminate the wild excess of verbiage and usually replace an "and" in a Multiattack description with "+", which has somewhat the same effect as caps would - a more easily spied delimiter.</p><p></p><p><em>E.g.</em></p><p><em><strong>Multiattack.</strong></em> The dragon can use its Frightful Presence. It then makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.</p><p><em>vs.</em></p><p><em><strong>Multiattack.</strong></em> Frightful Presence + bite + 2x claw</p><p></p><p>Maybe it's just that I have spent a lifetime reading code, but it boggles my mind that anyone could consider the former more usable than the latter. But it's only one of the many things I find user unfriendly about the 5e's presentation.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, AFAIK the 5e authors do not frequent these boards, so complaints/requests/suggestions registered here are unlikely to have much effect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harzel, post: 7610451, member: 6857506"] I'm a little confused. You seem already to understand that there is an implicit OR connecting all the Action options. (I assume this is what you meant by Attack options.) AFAIK, there are no exceptions to this. Are there exceptions that I am not thinking of? For Multiattack, can you give an example of a Multiattack description in which "and" is not present but would make things clearer if added? Or are you just talking about the difference between "and" and "AND"? I will admit that I often rewrite stat blocks to eliminate the wild excess of verbiage and usually replace an "and" in a Multiattack description with "+", which has somewhat the same effect as caps would - a more easily spied delimiter. [I]E.g.[/I] [I][B]Multiattack.[/B][/I] The dragon can use its Frightful Presence. It then makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws. [I]vs.[/I] [I][B]Multiattack.[/B][/I] Frightful Presence + bite + 2x claw Maybe it's just that I have spent a lifetime reading code, but it boggles my mind that anyone could consider the former more usable than the latter. But it's only one of the many things I find user unfriendly about the 5e's presentation. Anyway, AFAIK the 5e authors do not frequent these boards, so complaints/requests/suggestions registered here are unlikely to have much effect. [/QUOTE]
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