CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
Always Flavor over Mechanical Advantage. But as others have said, they aren't mutually exclusive. You can have pure mechanical advantage and add lots of backstory, history, and other flavor to it fairly easily with a little bit of world-building. Sure, you could place a generic "plus two longsword" in that tomb...or you could place Salazar's Fury, the glittering steel weapon that turned the tide of the battle at Orc's Rout and gave another victory to the Silverglade clan of elves (+2 longsword if wielded by an elf, +1 otherwise). Which one would you rather have on your character sheet?
I think flavor will always be more awesome than pure mechanical advantage.
I think flavor will always be more awesome than pure mechanical advantage.