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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 3911771" data-attributes="member: 3400">I voted to put the fluff in the sidebars. I like a little of it to provide an example of how a game can incorporate the rules to make a flavorful experience. But I want my rules to have clarity. The first purpose of the rules is to communicate, as clearly as possible, how the game is played. The use of fluff should not undermine that purpose.In a similar vein, the primary purpose of a character sheet or NPC stat block is to store information about that character and communicate it to the reader. As DM, I may have dozens of NPCs to deal with and so I prefer clarity and reasonable brevity in my stat blocks. Overly flavorful names of feats and powers that do not imply their effects are an obstacle to me running a game smoothly. There were already too many of them out there in 3E and 3.5 due to proliferation. I don't want to see the core rules do it too much right from the start in 4E.</blockquote>