Fluff rules!!!

[Calico_Jack73]

Without fluff in my gaming I might as well just sit down at night and read a college algebra textbook.

 

[Belen]

Without fluff in my gaming I might as well just sit down at night and read a college algebra textbook.

We are in perfect agreement on this one.

 

[Desdichado]

With rpgs, I want fluff. Rules are fine, but many times rules are interchangeable. I have had discussions many times with players about whether a given setting would work best under GURPS, D&D, Ars Magica, or some other set of rules -- the setting was more important than the rules, thus we wanted to make sure the rules served the setting, rather than the other way around.

Hear, hear! Crunch of some kind is important to keep the game from breaking down, but I don't value crunch for its own sake. Good fluff, on the other hand, is worth its weight in gold.

 

[AuraSeer]

A good game is like a good peanut butter sandwich.

Crunch is like the bread. It's important for structure, to hold everything together, but boring by itself. Not many people would be interested in a sandwich whose only ingredient is plain white bread.

Fluff is like the peanut butter, which supplies the flavor and is the main reason for eating the sandwich. But without bread to spread it on, it's a bit harder to eat, and much more difficult to serve to other people.

 

[Captain Howdy]

A good game is like a good peanut butter sandwich.

Crunch is like the bread. It's important for structure, to hold everything together, but boring by itself. Not many people would be interested in a sandwich whose only ingredient is plain white bread.

Fluff is like the peanut butter, which supplies the flavor and is the main reason for eating the sandwich. But without bread to spread it on, it's a bit harder to eat, and much more difficult to serve to other people.

Ever had a peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sadwich? Get it? FLUFF!

 

[drnuncheon]

Dammit Clay! When I saw this thread I thought it would have some good hard crunchy rules for fluff that I could use for my upcoming sourcebook, d20 d20:the Role-Playing Game Role-Playing Game. But it's all fluff.

 

[ledded]

Oh yes, fluff it is.

And not just any fluff for me, but that ravished carnival mouth-stuffing cotton-candy gorging fluff... the "marshmellow-on-a-stick over an open fire, blow it out, oh be careful it's still hot who cares I gotta have my fluff" fluff.

Sure, I needs my crunch, but I can't truly appreciate the crunch without big heaping helpings of fluff, as long as it's good fluff.

 

[Wombat]

Ever had a peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sadwich? Get it? FLUFF!

**shudder**

...not fluffernutters...

I haven't even heard of someone eating one of those since 1988...

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Fluff is great. As long as it ain't the blue belly button kind of fluff. That's just nasty!


Given the 2 threads I supose someone should do with another one discussing the correct balance of fluff and crunch.

What would such a mixture be referred to as?

Cruff? Flunch?

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

I like fluff more than crunch, too.

I just prefer to get all of the former out of my head, and all of the latter out of a book.