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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8513398" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>The lore contained in that book? No. No amount of changing the formatting will make the lore about Duergar and Elves in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes or about Orcs and Gnolls in Volo's Guide to Monsters any better. I also don't like having default lore at all in core rulebooks. I want the core books to be crunch, and for setting books and adventures to have fluff. I can make up my own fluff or buy the books that have the fluff that I need if I want to, I want the books that have the basic rules to play the game or use monsters to be mostly devoid of lore-based fluff. Stuff like "Harengon are twitchy and breed quickly, like Rabbits" and "Lizardfolk don't understand human emotions and eat anything they can, including other humanoids" is 100% okay, in my opinion, as that's based off of the behavoirs of the creatures that these races are based off of, but "Elves were created by Corellon, the god of Elves and Magic, and had a giant civil war with each other, creating Lolth and the Raven Queen and their rivalry with Orcs, yada, yada, yada" is the sort of things that I want to not be in books like Mordenkainen's and Volo's. Those books are supposed to be fairly setting-neutral (especially Mordenkainen's, as it discusses multiple worlds in the D&D multiverse), so they shouldn't have setting-specific lore like that. </p><p></p><p>If WotC wants to publish a Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk book with all of that lore, fine. I'll just not buy that book. I just don't want the books that I buy for mechanics to be polluted by lore, especially if it's garbage lore that takes up a ton of pages like "Moradin abandoned Clan Duergar because they left his temples unattended, even though they had just been captured, tortured, and mindraped by Illithids, but he's still a Lawful Good Creator God who loves his children" and other nonsense like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8513398, member: 7023887"] The lore contained in that book? No. No amount of changing the formatting will make the lore about Duergar and Elves in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes or about Orcs and Gnolls in Volo's Guide to Monsters any better. I also don't like having default lore at all in core rulebooks. I want the core books to be crunch, and for setting books and adventures to have fluff. I can make up my own fluff or buy the books that have the fluff that I need if I want to, I want the books that have the basic rules to play the game or use monsters to be mostly devoid of lore-based fluff. Stuff like "Harengon are twitchy and breed quickly, like Rabbits" and "Lizardfolk don't understand human emotions and eat anything they can, including other humanoids" is 100% okay, in my opinion, as that's based off of the behavoirs of the creatures that these races are based off of, but "Elves were created by Corellon, the god of Elves and Magic, and had a giant civil war with each other, creating Lolth and the Raven Queen and their rivalry with Orcs, yada, yada, yada" is the sort of things that I want to not be in books like Mordenkainen's and Volo's. Those books are supposed to be fairly setting-neutral (especially Mordenkainen's, as it discusses multiple worlds in the D&D multiverse), so they shouldn't have setting-specific lore like that. If WotC wants to publish a Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk book with all of that lore, fine. I'll just not buy that book. I just don't want the books that I buy for mechanics to be polluted by lore, especially if it's garbage lore that takes up a ton of pages like "Moradin abandoned Clan Duergar because they left his temples unattended, even though they had just been captured, tortured, and mindraped by Illithids, but he's still a Lawful Good Creator God who loves his children" and other nonsense like that. [/QUOTE]
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