Wednesday, 5th July 2017, 22:07 by Lord Haart
Not native English speaker's perspective:
1. Most summon spells starting with "summon" makes looking through the memorise list easier, not harder. It lets me limit my attention to those entries starting with "summon" (or exclude them from my attention when skimming over) and clearly indicates the unity of function.
2. Switching the order so that the keyword is at the end rather than in the beginning makes the list less readable, not more. It makes it so, instead of looking at the first word of the spell to recognise whether it might be the one i seek or not, i have to look at the first AND last word - which is barely better than having to read the enire name each time. Especially since, unlike the first word, the last isn't always in the same position. And i can no longer skim by by only paying attention to the first two or three letters. AND i'm fluent enough in English to cringe from seeing an abomination like "Ice beast call" outside of the sentai genre or a scientific study on ice beast ecology.
3. Yes, it WOULD make memorisation easier for me if all blasty spells' names started with one of "Magic _", "Fire _", " Lightning _", "Air_", " Freeze _", "Blast _", " Poison _". Assuming, of course, that no non-blasty spells would use any of those. Whether my current character is a blaster caster or not, it would let me easily and at a single glance distinguish blasty, summoning and utility spell categories based on a simple, easily memorisable list of keywords.
4. Call Imp and Call Canine Familiar are, indeed, confusing. And having "Familiar" in Canine did, indeed, make me believe that i'm about to learn a single-use permanent companion spell back when i was a noob.
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