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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5926764" data-attributes="member: 54877">I'm starting to lean towards stat block + prose, with deliberate redundant information in each. (Where the stat block indicates, the prose may still provide rules information that supplements what will not fit in the block, but would always at least write out most of what the block says already.)&nbsp;Among other reasons, this will allow them to finally stop splitting the difference on game terms versus in-game terms. Let the block talk about &quot;squares&quot; or (game) &quot;inches&quot; or whatever, with specific keywords with set meanings, etc. Then let the prose part use the in-game terms, whether &quot;feet&quot; or &quot;paces&quot; or being on fire. &nbsp;Inevitably, there will be discrepancies, where the block is changed from 6 to 5 squares and the prose part still says 30 feet instead of 25. But it would be rather simple to say that by default the block wins on mechanics questions until updated. Then people that want to run on the prose part can do so, ignoring the stat block until such time as they have a rules intention question they want answered enough to bother reading the block. Likewise, people who like running on the block but want to browse the spells to see what they do away from the table can read prose if they want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5926764, member: 54877"] I'm starting to lean towards stat block + prose, with deliberate redundant information in each. (Where the stat block indicates, the prose may still provide rules information that supplements what will not fit in the block, but would always at least write out most of what the block says already.) Among other reasons, this will allow them to finally stop splitting the difference on game terms versus in-game terms. Let the block talk about "squares" or (game) "inches" or whatever, with specific keywords with set meanings, etc. Then let the prose part use the in-game terms, whether "feet" or "paces" or being on fire. Inevitably, there will be discrepancies, where the block is changed from 6 to 5 squares and the prose part still says 30 feet instead of 25. But it would be rather simple to say that by default the block wins on mechanics questions until updated. Then people that want to run on the prose part can do so, ignoring the stat block until such time as they have a rules intention question they want answered enough to bother reading the block. Likewise, people who like running on the block but want to browse the spells to see what they do away from the table can read prose if they want. [/QUOTE]

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