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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Major Moab" data-source="post: 5692289" data-attributes="member: 6677003">This may seem like a self centered and trite answer, but please bear with:  It depends on the character I am playing.If my character is a rough and ready barbarian or fighter, who is hunting a villainous so and so,  I really don't care about the architecture beyond tactical value.  I don't care if the pillar I am lurking behind is Dorian or Corinthian, so long as it is wide.  Any "extraneous detail" is going to bore me.However, if I am playing a bard or cleric who studies history in great detail,  those details are very important to me.  I want to know who created this structure, what it was purposed for, and what the culture who made it believed in.  These are as important as the npc's I am dealing with.The summary of this is: look at your PC's.  Do you have a number of characters interested in the structure?  Then flesh it thoroughly.  If they are more like a rampaging force for Good, skip the detail.  It will probably be destroyed by the time they are done, anyhow.</blockquote>