Differentiate "in-range" spells in monster description


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Ziggurat Zagger

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Post Monday, 3rd July 2017, 10:32

Differentiate "in-range" spells in monster description

Quality of life improvement.
Monster description has list of spells but it is not very convenient especially when you check a monster with multiple spell books like Ancient Lich.
I suggest to make the information more user-friendly, put the range in parentheses and make the range number have different color when the monster can NOT cast the spell. Something like this assuming PC is 6 tiles away from the monster:
a - Iron Shot (5)
b - Poison Arrow (7)
c - Blink

Or alternatively

a - Iron Shot (5)
b - Poison Arrow (7)
c - Blink

Or maybe even

a - Iron Shot
b - Poison Arrow
c - Blink
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Cocytus Succeeder

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Post Monday, 3rd July 2017, 11:43

Re: Differentiate "in-range" spells in monster description

I dislike the last display type because it hides without a good reason a very important information, max distance of spell
screw it I hate this character I'm gonna go melee Gastronok

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Post Monday, 3rd July 2017, 18:06

Re: Differentiate "in-range" spells in monster description

This is one of those suggestions where I look at it and say "wow, I can't believe it isn't like that already"

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Ziggurat Zagger

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Post Saturday, 19th August 2017, 14:16

Re: Differentiate "in-range" spells in monster description

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