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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 2293501" data-attributes="member: 1335">Agreed! That's why the new stat block format is sooooo much better than the old one. With the old one, the AC, hit points, etc. just fall where they may in any given stat block, never in the same place in the "block."Again, I agree 100%. I've been tinkering with the same sorts of ideas, actually.  This is a hard line to draw. On the one hand, if you can do it short and susinct, I'm with you 100%. But if you make an overly abbreviated, jumbled, or hard to read composite of a lot of information, I'd much rather just have a page reference to the core book the material, monster, item, spell, etc. can be found. Unaltered MM monsters, for example, I'll always want to use out the MM. The format used in that book was agonized over and redone a number of times, tested by players of all types to determine the easiest way to use monster info. The old stat blocks were never tested, and thrown together (by people other than the core design team at the time) at the last minute based on 2nd edition stat blocks more or less.But I'm all for making the DM's life as easy as possible, so including appropriate calculated DCs and whatnot is always good.</blockquote>