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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joe Liker" data-source="post: 6348965" data-attributes="member: 6777505">Thanks for expanding on different ideas of complexity, Mr. Morris. To be clear, the type I am hoping to see more of is strategic complexity. The tendency to think of spells as nothing more than sparkly ammunition is, I feel, something to be avoided. (Evocation is, after all, just one of the eight schools of magic.)The problem is, if the treatment is inconsistent, it will be confusing to people. When an entry is missing, they will wonder if it's an error of if they are looking in the wrong place. (It is too much to hope that everyone will read the explanation of the headings that is printed before the list.)Consolidating information into the heading also does not reduce column space as effectively as you might imagine. In many cases, the same information only takes up a line or less in the description; in other cases, you might actually end up repeating the information, which in turn takes up even more space.And I've mentioned this before, but if all you need is the numbers, it does not take you any longer to glance through the description to pick them out. Numerals are easily and quickly distinguished from letters by the visual and language centers in your brain.I invite you to look through the spell list. Skipping past evocations (which should only account for about one-eighth of all spells in the PH), take note of which spells truly need entries for the header information you are proposing to add.Remember that if it takes up a line or less in the text, then you are not saving any space by moving it to the header. Also note how many spells deal with this information in the first line or two of the description -- if it's right there at the top, any complaint of digging through a wall of text to find it is not really valid.Once you do an honest survey of all the spells, I think you'll see that very, very few of them would benefit from the treatment suggested.</blockquote>

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