Equipment in Legend

[soltakss]

I am currently writing up an Equipment list for a Legend supplement and I was wondering which style of presentation people preferred.

The Legend rulebook has a table containing Name, Description, Culture, ENC and Cost.

This uses a lot of whitespace as a great deal of the table consists of nothing to line up with the description block.

An alternative format would be a paragraph description with the Cultuire/ENC/Cost at the bottom.

In the attached file, I have shown these as the imaginatively-named Format One and Format Two.

So, which is the better format?

Personally, I prefer a paragraph format rather than the table format, but that's just me.

 

[Simulacrum]

Personally I like the paragraph format. If all entries will coform to the same basic data, you can just lay it out like a spell description, e.g.:

Item Name
Culture/Availability; ENC; Cost
TEXT PARA HERE

 

[jarulf]

Simulacrum's suggestion is the way I'd prefer to see it.

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Simulacrum's suggestion is the way I'd prefer to see it.

Me too!

 

[Prime_Evil]

Simulacrum's suggestion is the way I'd prefer to see it.

Me too!

I also think that's the best approach. I'm not a big fan of the tables used by Mongoose.

 

[sdavies2720]

Of those choices, I also like the paragraph format.

But I vastly prefer a summary table that has name, short description, price and little else. Then a set of description paragraphs follow that. 90% of the time the table has everything you need, and you can copy it as a handout.

Steve

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

I also agree with that. We need the paragraph descriptiosn, but a table is more useful after the equipment has been used a few times.