houser2112 |
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This was brought up and addressed as a readability issue - in quite a few cases, the Critical Success is based on the Normal Success, and it's weird to have that above the normal success. It just doesn't flow that well. It may seem a bit odd this way right now, but it's ultimately better.
I'm reminded of this joke:
Man: Doc, it hurts when I do this.Doctor: Don't do that, then.
If are hurting readability by basing the crit success/fail on the normal success/fail, don't do that. When I am looking up what it means when there's a crit, I don't want to have to read another line to do that. I want to flip to the spell, go to the crit success line, and be on my way.
nightpanda2810 |
This was brought up and addressed as a readability issue - in quite a few cases, the Critical Success is based on the Normal Success, and it's weird to have that above the normal success. It just doesn't flow that well. It may seem a bit odd this way right now, but it's ultimately better.
I disagree. It should be in order of worst to best, or best to worst. If an entry says "as success" or "as failure" its completely effortless to go read that entry. It's literally a few lines away.
The bestiary entries don't follow this "readability rule" either. Later entries for similar monsters have you go back to read a special that's identical.
NickSullivan |
This was brought up and addressed as a readability issue - in quite a few cases, the Critical Success is based on the Normal Success, and it's weird to have that above the normal success. It just doesn't flow that well. It may seem a bit odd this way right now, but it's ultimately better.
What "flows better" is just your opinion, not fact. People can look down to the next item just as easily as they can look up to the previous.
modus0 |
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This was brought up and addressed as a readability issue - in quite a few cases, the Critical Success is based on the Normal Success, and it's weird to have that above the normal success. It just doesn't flow that well. It may seem a bit odd this way right now, but it's ultimately better.
Only it seems that for the majority of entries, the Critical Success line either paraphrases or [/b]downright repeats[/b] what the Success entry states, then adds its own info.
- Success: The creature resists being banished.
- Critical Success: The creature resists being banished and you are stunned until the end of your next turn.
Searching the PDF gives almost 200 entries for "Critical Success", and 10 of them have "Per a success", 2 have "As a success", and 3 have "As success" in them.
That's 15 entries where the Critical Success entry references the Success entry. Not nearly enough, in my opinion, to justify listing Success first.