Template talk:Creature

Spell resistance and Damage reduction
A suggestion...

IMO spell resistance and damage reduction are empirical enough values throughout the entire default palette to accommodate them in the 'Statistics' section of the creature template, perhaps in a similar fashion as spell casting has been assigned an alternative slot (i.e. spell resistance is simply a numeric value and DR is displayed similar to AB, as 15/+2, for instance... rather than burying them in a supplementary 'Special abilities' text section.

Our LAN development group is using both these characteristics as standard filter metrics to paint encounters and create customized blueprints while the players themselves find it easier to digest and compare highly-structured creature stats. In practice, the more filterable/sortable characteristics per blueprint, the easier it is to implement encounter balance choices. We also quantify damage resistances per tables but the variables are so vast, I see no way which a wiki template could easily capture these aspects of the blueprints. Our own creature database has already been built, but I think this suggested format may make future creature articles just a bit more structured and compact for readers. --Iconclast 16:10, May 22, 2012 (UTC)