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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amysrevenge" data-source="post: 4869875" data-attributes="member: 61298">Would this really happen?  Which of the following scenarios seems more likely, when designing an encounter:1) OK, I remember that there was a low-ish level cleric power keyed off of Strength that has a "The enemy cannot attack (save ends)" effect.  I don't remember the name or level of the power, but I'd like to throw it on a NPC; I better look it up.2) OK, I remember that there was a power called "Nimbus of Doom".  I don't remember what class it's from or what it does or what ability it's keyed off of, but I want to give it to an NPC; I better look it up.For me, I often don't even remember the names of the powers that my own characters have.  Frankly, the names of powers don't have a whole lot to do with their effects.  The only kind of index that I could possibly support would be one that listed all the powers with a "dazed" effect, and then all the powers with an "immobilized" effect, then "prone", then "stunned", and so on.  That could be handy.3) OK, I need a power that knocks prone, is a burst, and keys off of Int.  I'll flip through *the imaginary index mentioned above* for a Wizard power under "prone".Theoretically this pregen would have a class and level, and I posit that it would be much faster/easier to turn to the table of contents and then to the beginning of the class in question and then start flipping forward, than to go to an index, parse through it to a power, and flip back.  At the very best it would be even steven (and then why are we indexing again?).And feats already have an index of sorts, right in the feats chapter.  With no page numbers it isn't a true index, but the feats are alphabetical and only go across a handful of pages.</blockquote>

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