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<blockquote data-quote="Emberashh" data-source="post: 8968648" data-attributes="member: 7040941">You don't need to &quot;learn&quot; either list at all if you know how to read without taking 5 years.And more than that, if we take a quick Google at its word, theres currently around 200 or so Beasts in total across all official 5e Publications, and only a small portion of them are accessible by most Druids, with only Moon having more. Theres nearly 400 Spells in the PHB alone. Even if we accept that you &quot;must&quot; memorize these lists, the Spells alone already dwarf the list of eligible Beasts before we even break into supplements, and even as a Moon Druid you're not getting anywhere close. And you might try to say that this additive but, that's not how memory works, and ultimately isn't how the game plays. If you don't know the Spells or Beasts off the top of your head, you reference the material, and whether you're playing digitally or physically theres a multitude of ways to be efficient about it time wise. You should be respecting your Groups time by being prepared no matter what you're playing. And I still say that this is still more accurately described as a convenience problem. There is nothing either intricate nor hard to understand about how Wild Shape works. It being a lot of potential material to look at is not a complexity issue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emberashh, post: 8968648, member: 7040941"] You don't need to "learn" either list at all if you know how to read without taking 5 years. And more than that, if we take a quick Google at its word, theres currently around 200 or so Beasts in total across all official 5e Publications, and only a small portion of them are accessible by most Druids, with only Moon having more. Theres nearly 400 Spells in the PHB [I]alone. [/I]Even if we accept that you "must" memorize these lists, the Spells alone already dwarf the list of eligible Beasts before we even break into supplements, and even as a Moon Druid you're not getting anywhere close. And you might try to say that this additive but, that's not how memory works, and ultimately isn't how the game plays. If you don't know the Spells or Beasts off the top of your head, you reference the material, and whether you're playing digitally or physically theres a multitude of ways to be efficient about it time wise. You [I][B]should [/B][/I]be respecting your Groups time by being prepared no matter what you're playing. And I still say that this is still more accurately described as a convenience problem. There is nothing either intricate nor hard to understand about how Wild Shape works. It being a lot of potential material to look at is not a complexity issue. [/QUOTE]

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