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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 3368618" data-attributes="member: 7859">I like the two page format.  It is nice to have everything in one encounter.  WOTC decided a long time ago that stats for encounters would be consolidated in the back of the module, which I hate.It wrecks the flow for me when reading the module, and makes it harder for me to envision the space.The Two Page format of EtCR, while it still is stats in the back, at least lets me get the feel for encounter, and when you have something as massive and 3 dimensional as Castle Ravenloft helps you out.I like the reviews that John Cooper has done.  Intellectually anyone that points out that more rigor is needed is doing good works in my book.  However you have to keep in mind John came to prominence by being critical, and many of his critiques can be called nit picks.There are stat block errors of course in Ravenloft.  There are in every product, there are often, as John himself will admit, stat block errors in Johns own reviews, which I think shows the ease of missing a plus or two here or there.  I will not, however, call the omission of such trivial things like the stat modifier to the Survival skill or the Synergy Bonus to Bluff: Acting  to be considered a Stat Block error.  The monster is not going to use those skills, their inclusion adds nothing, and if WOTC did include those entries it truly would be worse page padding than reprinting a piece of artwork.</blockquote>

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