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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cybertalus" data-source="post: 260993" data-attributes="member: 4400">I've been in love with the Realms since I first set eyes on the 1st Edition boxed set.  The thing I love about it is the "fluff" (a term I despise because it's quite derogatory and dismissive).  When I got the FRCS the first section I went to was the gods.  I wanted to know who was in, who was out, and who was different.  Then I started looking for entries on my favorite NPCs, then my favorite cities and towns to see what was up with them.  Then I hit the foldout map.  Eventually I got around to the sections on game mechanics and other stuff, but that section didn't get my imagination firing like the "fluff" did.So yeah, I'm firmly in the fluff camp.  Heck my favorite Realms supplements ever were the Volo's Guides.  You couldn't get more fluffy than that if you made the books out of cotton candy.  Take the "fluff" out of the Realms products and what you've got is what you have when you take the fluffy stuff out of the middle of a 3 Musketeers Bar:  a dull hollow chocolate shell.  Certainly not something I'd buy.One other point.  In the exchanges between Anthony and Sean one thing I see is that Anthony is telling me something I've gotten very tired of hearing, that as a customer I'm not as important because my tastes don't go along with the majority of the company's customers.  Sean meanwhile is defending the value of my tastes, and saying that (at least in this specific case) they are important.No doubt that if there is ever a choice between buying a product by someone who put himself out there to defend the value of the "fluff" I so enjoy, and the company which says my tastes are not important because not enough people agree with me, the one who defended the fluff will have the decided advantage.</blockquote>

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