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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7657432" data-attributes="member: 7006">Well sure... but if you were truly an old school gamer, after you first learned how fireball worked, when did you ever actually re-read the description of the fireball spell after that?&nbsp; Did you re-read the fluff each and every time you cast it?&nbsp; My guess would be 'no' (because reall,y who ever does?).&nbsp; Once you knew the mechanics of the spell and had learned the visualization of what was happening from the description that first time or two casting it... you probably never re-read the spell's fluff again because you already knew what was happening.And thus... the fact that the 4E fireball didn't include more description or fluff than what Klaus mentions above... really shouldn't be that much of an issue.&nbsp; You already knew what a fireball was, did, and looked like from all your years previous to 4E... so why did it matter than 4E didn't re-type several paragraphs of description for it?&nbsp; What purpose would it have served you?&nbsp; You probably would have ignored the description just as you did so many times before.&nbsp; I know I did.&nbsp; I knew what a fireball looked like.&nbsp; I knew what happened when one went off.&nbsp; All that was different were the mechanics to it that I had to adjudicate as a player and DM.&nbsp; So having those mechanics written out simply and clearly and without anything getting in their way was to me more of a boon than a hindrance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7657432, member: 7006"] Well sure... but if you were truly an old school gamer, after you first learned how fireball worked, when did you ever actually re-read the description of the fireball spell after that? Did you re-read the fluff each and every time you cast it? My guess would be 'no' (because reall,y who ever does?). Once you knew the mechanics of the spell and had learned the visualization of what was happening from the description that first time or two casting it... you probably never re-read the spell's fluff again because you already knew what was happening. And thus... the fact that the 4E fireball didn't include more description or fluff than what Klaus mentions above... really shouldn't be that much of an issue. You already knew what a fireball was, did, and looked like from all your years previous to 4E... so why did it matter than 4E didn't re-type several paragraphs of description for it? What purpose would it have served you? You probably would have ignored the description just as you did so many times before. I know I did. I knew what a fireball looked like. I knew what happened when one went off. All that was different were the mechanics to it that I had to adjudicate as a player and DM. So having those mechanics written out simply and clearly and without anything getting in their way was to me more of a boon than a hindrance. [/QUOTE]

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