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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8078633" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Hmm... I see what you’re saying here. I’ll have to see how this formatting works with more spells before deciding if I prefer it over mine from the previous post.I just used the wording from the spell as written in the 5e PHB. Specifying “the effect damage” is probably a little clearer though.I don’t think that’s necessary. I intentionally left the Duration line out of both of these instead of Duration: Instantaneous because it’d just be eating up page to tell you the spell doesn’t have the thing the line it’s there to tell you about. Likewise, if the spell doesn’t have a save, it shouldn’t have a save line, and if it doesn’t hit, it shouldn’t have a hit line.Absolutely not. The entire point of this reformatting is so you can easily tell everything you need to know about the spell at a glance, without having to read through a paragraph of text to find the bit you’re looking for. “How do I know if it works?” and “what happens if it works?” are different pieces of information that need to be hi-lighted separately. Putting them both in the same paragraph will lead to reading one when what you want to know is the other, causing slowdown.Eh, tedium during prep &gt; slowdown during play. IMO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8078633, member: 6779196"] Hmm... I see what you’re saying here. I’ll have to see how this formatting works with more spells before deciding if I prefer it over mine from the previous post. I just used the wording from the spell as written in the 5e PHB. Specifying “the effect damage” is probably a little clearer though. [SIZE=6][/SIZE] I don’t think that’s necessary. I intentionally left the Duration line out of both of these instead of [B]Duration:[/B] Instantaneous because it’d just be eating up page to tell you the spell doesn’t have the thing the line it’s there to tell you about. Likewise, if the spell doesn’t have a save, it shouldn’t have a save line, and if it doesn’t hit, it shouldn’t have a hit line. Absolutely not. The entire point of this reformatting is so you can easily tell everything you need to know about the spell at a glance, without having to read through a paragraph of text to find the bit you’re looking for. “How do I know if it works?” and “what happens if it works?” are different pieces of information that need to be hi-lighted separately. Putting them both in the same paragraph will lead to reading one when what you want to know is the other, causing slowdown. Eh, tedium during prep > slowdown during play. IMO. [/QUOTE]

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