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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6427735" data-attributes="member: 12377">Show me a group where the flavor text doesn't matter at all and I'll show you a group playing a miniatures war game or tactical skirmish game.Or, consider this: What if all the flavor text were changed? What if a "sword" was a flexible segmented metal weapon with serrated edges? What if "orcs" were anthropomorphic armadillos and "dragons" were giant insectoids and "elves" were made of clear plastic? What if "wizards" cast "spells" by interfacing with a global satellite defense system that manipulates quantum foam to pull in "magic" effects from alternate realities? Would you still be playing D&D? I would argue that at some point, you would not be playing D&D any more. Even the most outrageous settings (Dark Sun, Planescape, Spelljammer) were still chock-full of D&D flavor and fluff text, just with a twist.So to some extent the flavor does matter, it's just a question of how much.</blockquote>