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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 992258" data-attributes="member: 1331">Re: Re: Re: Feat: Assume Supernatural Ability (SS) and the BeholderNo, I didn't say "only." If you want other reasons, I'd point out that the rays are strongly thematically linked. It's also because there are a lot of them; reading ten near-identical entries would be irritating, and that block of repeating text would make it difficult to pick out the differences between each ray.The balor entry you mention is hardly equivalent. Those are two very short entries, with no special rules at all. Duplicating a single line of text once is not a significant waste of space, where duplicating a paragraph 9 times would be.Note that for simple abilities, adding a subheading would actually make them harder to read. The balor entry, like most others, is written with the important items are the beginning and end of the line. It's easier to spot them when you're skimming, or looking something up during combat. Moving the actual power names would decrease readability.Compare this:"Detect Magic (Su): blah bublah blablah, bublahblah blah blublah 20th-level sorcerer."to this:"Blahblah blah(Su): blahblah blah bu blahblah, bublahblah detect magic blublah blahbablah, 20th-level sorcerer."(The beholder's different eye rays maintain readability because they're split into separate paragraphs.)</blockquote>