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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7595297" data-attributes="member: 907">I prefer bullet points, and the main reason is that I always need to rewrite the boxed text in my head anyway. That's because the boxed text in D&amp;D adventures is in English, and we play in Swedish (well, more like Swenglish - we usually use English terms for game mechanics and most monsters that don't have an immediately obvious translation, but the &quot;flow&quot; of the game is mostly Swedish).So, for example, if the adventure has boxed text saying &quot;The cave mouth opens into darkness from which a breezes blows, carrying the faint odor of death. Inside is a natural cave, its floor and ceiling uneven. The passage leads to the west, narrowing as it proceeds.&quot;, I still have to translate that to something like &quot;Grottmynningen öppnar sig in mot ett mörker där ni känner hur en bris blåser, och den bär en svag lukt av död. Inuti finns det en naturlig grotta med ojämnt golv och tak. Passagen leder västerut och smalnar av allt eftersom den går vidare.&quot;That is of course a very simple example, taken from a published adventure. And translating that on the fly is kind of hard, particularly when English flows differently from Swedish. For example, the construction &quot;a breeze blows, carrying the faint odor of death&quot; does not feel natural in Swedish. My translation changed that to the equivalent of &quot;and it carries the faint odor of death&quot;. But I'm not sure I'd have caught that if translating on the fly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 7595297, member: 907"] I prefer bullet points, and the main reason is that I always need to rewrite the boxed text in my head anyway. That's because the boxed text in D&D adventures is in English, and we play in Swedish (well, more like Swenglish - we usually use English terms for game mechanics and most monsters that don't have an immediately obvious translation, but the "flow" of the game is mostly Swedish). So, for example, if the adventure has boxed text saying "The cave mouth opens into darkness from which a breezes blows, carrying the faint odor of death. Inside is a natural cave, its floor and ceiling uneven. The passage leads to the west, narrowing as it proceeds.", I still have to translate that to something like "Grottmynningen öppnar sig in mot ett mörker där ni känner hur en bris blåser, och den bär en svag lukt av död. Inuti finns det en naturlig grotta med ojämnt golv och tak. Passagen leder västerut och smalnar av allt eftersom den går vidare." That is of course a very simple example, taken from a published adventure. And translating that on the fly is kind of hard, particularly when English flows differently from Swedish. For example, the construction "a breeze blows, carrying the faint odor of death" does not feel natural in Swedish. My translation changed that to the equivalent of "and it carries the faint odor of death". But I'm not sure I'd have caught that if translating on the fly. [/QUOTE]

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