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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6054376" data-attributes="member: 7006">Well, now we're moving on to just what I would consider poor design layout.  To me it makes very little sense to remove casting mechanics from the Wizard and Cleric entries, but keep it within the Warlock, Sorcerer (and probably Druid) entries.  That would make things even more difficult to understand.  Proper layout would mean to either have casting mechanics in each Class description, or have them in no Class description at all and bundle them together in the Magic chapter.I understand your desire for Warlocks and Sorcerers to have simple default mechanics... but truth be told... what I described in the second scenario does in fact easily give you what you want if its written that way.  The Magic chapter would start by saying that spellcasting mechanics have run the gamut over the years, and each class has developed certain baselines for what has been their traditional methods for casting spells.  The different mechanics include A, B, C, D, & E.  Your baseline, traditional  Warlock would use C.  Your baseline Sorcerer would use D.  The Clerics, Druids and Wizards would use A, B, and E depending on edition.  But each and every class could use different mechanics if agreed upon by the DM and his players.So the Warlock player does get informed quite clearly that their standard casting mechanic is C (and the description of how C works).  The only difference is that rather than getting it from the Warlock entry in the Class chapter... he gets it at the beginning of the Magic chapter, right before he finds his spell list.  And he arrives there fairly easily when the Warlock description says "See page XX for casting mechanic description and Warlock spell list.Easy-peasy.</blockquote>

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