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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nai_Calus" data-source="post: 4752769" data-attributes="member: 79670">See, my first D&D edition was 3.5, and I *hate* the layout of 3.5 books. It's filled with a million annoying overwrought page borders and those annoying lines in the background that make it hard to read some pages and it makes reading any 3.5 book a chore. The 3.0 books with their table layouts are even worse.4e still has a bunch of frippery when I've read it, but it's a lot more legible other than that something about the way powers are laid out in the books makes them incredibly painful to read and difficult to grasp stuff about. (The character builder fixes that at least for me.)I have a couple of Planescape things(The main CS box and the Inner Planes book) and I find those OK for the most part. The artwork doesn't usually get too obnoxious with the text and it's meant to be designed a certain way for the feel of the setting. That's great, for settings.Rules? Ugh. No frilly stuff please. No annoying page borders or background elements or huge fancy dividers, just neatly organized black text on a white background that I can just sit there and *read*. I like the BD&D booklets I have for that very reason. White background, black text, some images, no frippery. It's nice on the eyes.My eyesight also isn't the best and a recent eye injury hasn't helped any. Now mind you, I hate the actual art used for 4e for the most part. Too many tieflings and dragonborn(I hate both), too martial-arts movie-ish, a lot of it is just plain ridiculous or bad, and since most of the reused art comes from 3.5 I notice most of it and it annoys me. (Particularly the Eladrin and Elf PPs in PHB2, neither of which in their original use had anything at all to do with what they're being used for. The Elf one isn't that great and would have fit the Eladrin PP better, the Eladrin one wasn't a good picture to begin with and doesn't fit at all.) But the design is at least better and it's easier to read.</blockquote>

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