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<blockquote data-quote="Fallstorm" data-source="post: 5901608" data-attributes="member: 55683"><p>I disagree on this. I started playing DnD with 2E (I have the 1E books but never got the chance to play 1st edition), and have played every edition of DnD since then, including 4th edition. The short flavor blurp at the top fo the powers in 4E gives me enough fluff/imagination text to picture what the power does, while the concise layout presents it in a way that avoids confusion and explicitly details what a power does. Area burst X within X all creatures. That is clear enough, whereas just pulling out my 2E PHB and flipping to a random page (in this case pg 177 of the 2E PHB) I am looking at the power "Eyebite" which is note one but SIX paragraphs long or spells like Ensnarement on page 176 which is about EIGHT paragraphs long. </p><p> </p><p>I don't require spells to be that detailed. Tell me what the spell does mechanically with a dose of flavor , and my own active imagination can do the rest. Instead those extra long paragraphs used to describe a single spell, could be used to make space for more classes, to make space for alternatively rules, like extra combat rules for those who want their combats to be more (or less) complex, to add additional magic items, and so forth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fallstorm, post: 5901608, member: 55683"] I disagree on this. I started playing DnD with 2E (I have the 1E books but never got the chance to play 1st edition), and have played every edition of DnD since then, including 4th edition. The short flavor blurp at the top fo the powers in 4E gives me enough fluff/imagination text to picture what the power does, while the concise layout presents it in a way that avoids confusion and explicitly details what a power does. Area burst X within X all creatures. That is clear enough, whereas just pulling out my 2E PHB and flipping to a random page (in this case pg 177 of the 2E PHB) I am looking at the power "Eyebite" which is note one but SIX paragraphs long or spells like Ensnarement on page 176 which is about EIGHT paragraphs long. I don't require spells to be that detailed. Tell me what the spell does mechanically with a dose of flavor , and my own active imagination can do the rest. Instead those extra long paragraphs used to describe a single spell, could be used to make space for more classes, to make space for alternatively rules, like extra combat rules for those who want their combats to be more (or less) complex, to add additional magic items, and so forth. [/QUOTE]
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