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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 1985162" data-attributes="member: 21169">The whole fluff versus crunch thing is not about saying one is better than the other. IMO you need both for a decent game experience. But crunch makes a much better roleplaying product than fluff.The genius of WotC was to realise that gamers are great at doing fluff, not so hot on crunch. You yourself are a good example of this. You love fluff. Your posts indicate you're very much focused on it. You're really good at making your own fluff. The last thing you need from a gaming product is more of it. What you need is crunch and that's what WotC supplies.The vast majority of gamers are just like you. Not only can they do fluff but they vastly prefer their own to other people's. So there's not much point in games companies supplying it.In my view, fluff versus crunch is really an issue about what elements of the whole gaming experience are best supplied by an external source and what are best supplied by the GM and players.</blockquote>