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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6112900" data-attributes="member: 7006">When it comes to monster stat blocks... I want everything needed to run the monster right there in the block... including applicable spell descriptions.I ran a half-dozen D&amp;DN games at PAX East two weekends ago... and I did not have any descriptions for the spells that the evil clerics or wizards had.&nbsp; Part of that was my fault for not printing the Spells chapter of the playtest packet at home... but in actuality... I don't think I should have needed to.&nbsp; If an evil cleric has Command, Cure Wounds and Inflict Wounds in its stat block... I want a condensed description of all three spells right there so I know exactly how it plays.Which also goes along with my feeling that 4E monster design is preferable to 3E design, in that you only list the two or three most important spells that monster might actually use for a particular combat (with their condensed descriptions), rather than a full-on list of every spell the monster would actually probably know.&nbsp; It's having a 12 level Evil Cleric with a list of 12 different spells that he has prepared that I think is a waste of space, considering he's going to get off at most like three of them before he's dead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6112900, member: 7006"] When it comes to monster stat blocks... I want everything needed to run the monster right there in the block... including applicable spell descriptions. I ran a half-dozen D&DN games at PAX East two weekends ago... and I did not have any descriptions for the spells that the evil clerics or wizards had. Part of that was my fault for not printing the Spells chapter of the playtest packet at home... but in actuality... I don't think I should have needed to. If an evil cleric has Command, Cure Wounds and Inflict Wounds in its stat block... I want a condensed description of all three spells right there so I know exactly how it plays. Which also goes along with my feeling that 4E monster design is preferable to 3E design, in that you only list the two or three most important spells that monster might actually use for a particular combat (with their condensed descriptions), rather than a full-on list of every spell the monster would actually probably know. It's having a 12 level Evil Cleric with a list of 12 different spells that he has prepared that I think is a waste of space, considering he's going to get off at most like three of them before he's dead. [/QUOTE]

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