true, but placing footnotes everywhere tend to explain a lot of things to players, but also clutters a lot.
I hate M:tG cards for example ever since they have those (italic explaining text) everywhere nowadays. If I want to know what an ability does I simply print a list of the ones I don't know from mind and always can look it up. Easy is not always best. Too much clutter is not attractive.
I think there is more then enough 'explaining' texts in this site on the player's pages.
In short: I dislike footnotes, unless they are realy helpfull and do not clutter the page (for instance a page that does not hold much characters and other stuff, which is not the case with the rosterpage for the games)
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