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Change to how spellcasting monsters work in the MM and other monster books.
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<blockquote data-quote="R_J_K75" data-source="post: 8118700" data-attributes="member: 6921294"><p>I have the same problem when running an encounter with a spellcasting NPC or monster. Without some substantial prep of reading the spell beforehand, making notes, unless you have the spells memorized, its next to impossible to run a monster without looking up the spell in the PHB. Then the spell descriptions are just too long. I think the big picture problem here is how spell descriptions are written. If they truncated them, and broke them down to their lowest common denominator into an "At-A-Glance" format (somewhere, maybe not the PHB) running encounters would be a lot easier. I know they have spell cards but Id think they'd be pretty unwieldy after buying a few sets at one spell per card.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R_J_K75, post: 8118700, member: 6921294"] I have the same problem when running an encounter with a spellcasting NPC or monster. Without some substantial prep of reading the spell beforehand, making notes, unless you have the spells memorized, its next to impossible to run a monster without looking up the spell in the PHB. Then the spell descriptions are just too long. I think the big picture problem here is how spell descriptions are written. If they truncated them, and broke them down to their lowest common denominator into an "At-A-Glance" format (somewhere, maybe not the PHB) running encounters would be a lot easier. I know they have spell cards but Id think they'd be pretty unwieldy after buying a few sets at one spell per card. [/QUOTE]
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