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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 4512562" data-attributes="member: 36160">Add me to the list that wishes they had just left the description off. It gets worse in the adventurer's vault, though this is previewed in some PHB powers -- Fire hands Wizard Attack [MadeUp]"This spell causes flame to shoot from your hands and set foes near to you alight"Arcane, Fire, ImplementClose Burst 3Atk: Intelligence vs FortitudeHit: 1d8 + Intelligence fire damage and ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends).The description! It does nothing!It's exactly the same as the mechanical effects! If there were an index where it was presented, that'd be okay -- not great, but okay -- but it's not even flavor text! Gah!Calmer now. I wish that powers usually looked like this:Fire hands Wizard Attack [MadeUp]// this spell is too obvious for a description -- none is provided.Arcane, FireClose Burst 3Atk: Intelligence + Implement vs FortitudeHit: 1d8 + Intelligence + Implement fire damage and ongoing 5 fire (save ends).Alternatively, icons could be used instead of spelling out implement on the atk and hit line. But in many ways, they dropped the ball in communicating powers -- it's not like they don't put the weapon keyword on a ton of powers; being explicit about it would have been a lot nicer.And making the descriptions not be rehash of the mechanics would be even nicer.I think my ideal world would have the descriptions be -- in cases where something horribly overwrought is called for -- similar to Magic cards' design, giving us snippets of the default world:"... and with a swift prayer to Moradin, Father Oakbeard smote The Old One's lieutenant, leaving the mark of the Soulforger glowing in its unclean flesh"  -- Annals of the HammerOr something.</blockquote>

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