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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7775114" data-attributes="member: 5100">You aren't wrong, but it isn't exactly right, either. In AD&amp;D, that was all you really needed. No skills or anything like that. DR was pretty simple, too. 5E is a bit more complex, with most things wanting at least the six stats and a couple of skills, in addition to the AC/HP/attacks.Also, there's a major difference in that the AD&amp;D &quot;sentence&quot; made use of caps and abbreviations in a way that helped guide the eye. The 5E sample is just a run-on sentence that sucks to scan.Now, if they use the &quot;sentence&quot; block for in-line reference in adventures (as in, &quot;This room has 4 Bull Thistles (AC 6...)&quot;), and include a book/page reference number (or DDB link) for details, I might be fine with that. I've noticed that some of the existing adventures left some of that out and it is sometimes a pain to remember on the fly (&quot;oh, crap, I thought they'd take a left, so that's what I reread last night&quot;).For any meaningful amount of info, though, I prefer some sort of tabular layout.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 7775114, member: 5100"] You aren't wrong, but it isn't exactly right, either. In AD&D, that was all you really needed. No skills or anything like that. DR was pretty simple, too. 5E is a bit more complex, with most things wanting at least the six stats and a couple of skills, in addition to the AC/HP/attacks. Also, there's a major difference in that the AD&D "sentence" made use of caps and abbreviations in a way that helped guide the eye. The 5E sample is just a run-on sentence that sucks to scan. Now, if they use the "sentence" block for in-line reference in adventures (as in, "This room has 4 Bull Thistles (AC 6...)"), and include a book/page reference number (or DDB link) for details, I might be fine with that. I've noticed that some of the existing adventures left some of that out and it is sometimes a pain to remember on the fly ("oh, crap, I thought they'd take a left, so that's what I reread last night"). For any meaningful amount of info, though, I prefer some sort of tabular layout. [/QUOTE]

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