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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9305705" data-attributes="member: 7006">I wouldn't expect WotC to ever put down the classes that get it inside the spell write-ups because that will become one of the most quickly outdated parts of the book.&nbsp; Sure, you can put down classes... but what about subclasses?&nbsp; Are you going to distinguish specific subclasses in the list if they are the only ones who get it?&nbsp; Do you write down 'Cleric' in the Fireball spellblock?&nbsp; Or do you specify 'Cleric - Domain of Light' in the block?&nbsp; Or maybe 'Light Domain', or even exclude Cleric altogether since it's not in the actual Cleric's list?&nbsp; And then what happens when WotC releases a new subclass later that includes the spell as a Bonus spell for a particular class?&nbsp; That's now missing from the list within the spell's write-up.&nbsp; At some point it just becomes an outdated waste.As far as the question of where a caster's spell list should appear-- within the Class section in the front of the book or at the top of the Spells chapter before all the spellblocks... I don't really have an opinion.&nbsp; I would suggest that having it within the Class section just looks messier or a little more boring-- you now have a page in the section that is just a long list of spell names across an entire page or two and thus now flipping through the Classes section is a little bit less pleasing to the eye in my opinion... but whether or not that matters to anyone picking up the book I couldn't say.&nbsp; But I don't think it's a coincidence that WotC puts the huge section of spellblocks at the back of the book rather than up front... because that repetitive and rather bland-looking formatting gets tiresome to read and so you don't want to put that giant section up front where people have to flip-flip-flip-flip past it continually to get further into the book.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9305705, member: 7006"] I wouldn't expect WotC to ever put down the classes that get it inside the spell write-ups because that will become one of the most quickly outdated parts of the book. Sure, you can put down classes... but what about subclasses? Are you going to distinguish specific subclasses in the list if they are the only ones who get it? Do you write down 'Cleric' in the Fireball spellblock? Or do you specify 'Cleric - Domain of Light' in the block? Or maybe 'Light Domain', or even exclude Cleric altogether since it's not in the actual Cleric's list? And then what happens when WotC releases a new subclass later that includes the spell as a Bonus spell for a particular class? That's now missing from the list within the spell's write-up. At some point it just becomes an outdated waste. As far as the question of where a caster's spell list should appear-- within the Class section in the front of the book or at the top of the Spells chapter before all the spellblocks... I don't really have an opinion. I would suggest that having it within the Class section just looks messier or a little more boring-- you now have a page in the section that is just a long list of spell names across an entire page or two and thus now flipping through the Classes section is a little bit less pleasing to the eye in my opinion... but whether or not that matters to anyone picking up the book I couldn't say. But I don't think it's a coincidence that WotC puts the huge section of spellblocks at the back of the book rather than up front... because that repetitive and rather bland-looking formatting gets tiresome to read and so you don't want to put that giant section up front where people have to flip-flip-flip-flip past it continually to get further into the book. [/QUOTE]

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