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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3688918" data-attributes="member: 2067">So my job is to crank out 8 fluff-heavy titles, yeah?Not a problem. I'll start off with the more ambitious projects, though in practice it might be smarter to spread those out over a few years, while keeping a more steady pace of smaller, less-ambitious projects. Most of these are one-shots.I think a lot of the books mentioned above are books I'd love to see, but would require a good amount of Crunch to pull off well in my mind. BIG NOVEL TIE-INSimilar to what ENWorld is doing with Metamorphosis, we tie a source book in with a novel release, perhaps even packaging them together. Stat out the heroes, the monsters, tell the DM how to mimic this novel, or what adventures are taking place along with it. Give the players a sense of helping out the novel's characters -- reference stuff from the adventure in the novel in an offhanded way. BIG MONSTER DOCUMENTARYYou know those nature documentaries where they take a segment of the planet and just watch it for a while? Do that, but with a region of a D&D world. Check out how monsters function as wildlife, with advice for DMs making cohesive ecologies and even monster cultures. Of course, this also includes bits about magical applications of monster pieces, an environmental-specific PrC, or whatnot. Total fluff is never a good idea, but this book would focus on it. Think of this like a Monster Manual that's more about quality per monster than quantity of monsters. ARTSY EXTRAVAGANZAArt is considered fluff, I'm assuming. It's definitely not rules and math. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> So big, brilliant pieces from new and established D&D authors. Make it a huge coffee-table style book, release it 'roundabouts Christmas time. One one side of the page, you have the scene, the creature, the character. On the other side, statblock. 'HOW TO FLUFF'Let's face it, everyone needs a little here and there. This book is for DMs who know their crunch and don't need help with their statblocks, but who might want to add a bit of richness and detail to the world anyway. Help with verisimilitude, advice on setting a mood, motivations for characters (carrot and stick logic), tables of 100 ideas a la the 100 adventure ideas tables, a crash course in improv, etc. This can include a bunch of crunchy rules for fluffy things, like hard skill mechanics for political negotations. It's supposed to be a bridge between the two focuses, so having a bit more crunch than average might not be a bad idea. ADAPTATIONSOr "How to use existing rules in cool ways." Going back to kind of a 2e strategy of defining every viking and knight as a "fighter." Don't change the rules or offer anything new, just show DM's how to get what they want out of the rules as they exist and why the game really doesn't need more of certain things. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> This includes cultural adaptations (Asian, Arabian, African, Amerindian, etc.), historical adaptations (dinosaurs and lasers), cinematic adaptations (how to add film genre feels to your games), etc.  BOOK O' ORGANIZATIONSThe Affiliation System is great, but it's often kind of crammed in with books that are really about other stuff. Give it a chance to shine. Give me a book about the machinations and movements of large groups of people, and give my PC a chance to belong to them. GODSMACKPunny project title aside, this one is all about gettin' some religion. You know how Dieities and Demigods was 3/4ths about Zeus's +100 attack bonus, and 1/4 about what his D&D faith would look like? Flip it. Reverse it. DON'T go into Zeus's actual history, but what he is in D&D, distinct from his Greek roots. Something like my Deitiy-A-Week Thread, which was pretty much all fluff and the occasional feat. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />FLUFFY ADVENTUREPolitical intrigue! Romance! Character deapth! Honor! Royalty! And PC's who need to save the day without resorting to much combat!Those are a few of my best proposals.</blockquote>

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