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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5926917" data-attributes="member: 82106">The 1e DMG took a stab at that with monsters (mainly because IIRC the original MM didn't have XP values). It was of course so obsolete within no time that it wasn't really worth much. You still had to look the thing up in the actual book mostly anyway, and if the monster was so simply you didn't need to then it was already scratched down on your room description (or in your module). I think summarizing tables just aren't really worth it. They also didn't work too well in 4e for feats. There you just ended up still needing to look it up to know exactly what it did because every detail was important, and the summary was barely any simpler than the writeup. The real pain IMHO when you have to look stuff up AT ALL is you have to figure out which book it is in, dig out that book, find the page, and then read the whole thing. 4e's power cards are a HUGE time saver (DDI too). While I'm sure some sort of DDI is possible for freeform spells without any structure it will be harder to use and very hard to summarize a spell so you can fit it on a card. Admittedly some spells will never fit on a card, but most will, and the few exceptions you probably need to look up no matter what.</blockquote>