The Great Question of Morale

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What should the abbreviation for Morale be in a monster stat line? (See picture before answering.)

Poll ended at Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:01 pm

Upper-case M, upper-case L
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83%
Upper-case M, lower-case L
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17%
 
Total votes: 36
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ML is clear and easy to read.
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ML makes it sound like an acronym. Like AC or HD or HP. Those are two words each, so it makes sense to make both letters uppercase. Morale, Attack and others are one word, which is the reason why "Ml" and "At" make so much more sense to me.

So I'd suggest we either keep Ml, At and Sv or we make everything capitalized, as some have suggested, though it is the inferior choice, in my opinion.
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I vote for ML as it’s clearer and also if you are looking at a stat block string, it’s easy to spot at a glance that that is morale. In the same vain I like the AT and SV idea. It’s an ease of use choice for me.

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Stirge: AC 13, HD 1, #AT 1 bite, DAM 1d4 +1d4/round blood drain, MV 10' Fly 60', SV F1, ML 9, XP 37
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Shouldn't Save As be SA?
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I don’t think you’ll have to choose. Poll is becoming clearer. :)
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Movement is also both upper cases, keep it as ML keeps it in line.
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Move has always been "Mv" in our formatting...
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I saw it a couple of times on the Forum and thought it was the standardized form.
Should it be "MV" then?
Same as Damage, if currently is "Dam", should it change to "DAM" (I prefer "DMG" although it may be confused with a certain book).
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I chose not to use DMG because of that, though I would have written it Dmg.

On the one hand, I see the attraction of consistency here. But:

Stirge: AC 13, HD 1, #AT 1 bite, DAM 1d4 +1d4/round blood drain, MV 10' Fly 60', SV F1, ML 9, XP 37

Now it's just yelling at me.

Changing just morale isn't such a big deal to me, but making them all uppercase removes a variable-size feature that helps my eyes find the right stat.

Would help if someone with dyslexia were to weigh in. I know these kinds of things can be issues for them.
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Vindeishi wrote: Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:05 pm
coureur_d_bois wrote: Tue Feb 07, 2023 10:38 pm I voted for ML for the sake of clarity. I do find it weird though that other abreviations keep the old format. I Would personally capitalize everything.

For example, Sv becomes SV and At becomes AT.
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