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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9555599" data-attributes="member: 7635">I'm responding to what you think was an appropriate amount of description and lore, which is three sentences, one of which is what languages they speak. (Which is clearly more important than what they look like). That example is bunk because it assumes you already know what an elf is and looks like. You will fill in the details that they are tall, thin, beardless, pointy eared, and beautiful. And I bet if you handed me that as a description of an elf for your game and I created Santa Claus (that jolly old elf) you and I would have a difference of opinion even though MY interpretation of what is there is no more wrong than yours.You can attempt to explain why a description is different from lore, but in your &quot;this looks about right&quot; example, you gave neither. It's a tagline masquerading as body text. It's functionally useless unless you already know what it's describing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 9555599, member: 7635"] I'm responding to what you think was an appropriate amount of description and lore, which is three sentences, one of which is what languages they speak. (Which is clearly more important than what they look like). That example is bunk because it assumes you already know what an elf is and looks like. You will fill in the details that they are tall, thin, beardless, pointy eared, and beautiful. And I bet if you handed me that as a description of an elf for your game and I created Santa Claus (that jolly old elf) you and I would have a difference of opinion even though MY interpretation of what is there is no more wrong than yours. You can attempt to explain why a description is different from lore, but in your "this looks about right" example, you gave neither. It's a tagline masquerading as body text. It's functionally useless unless you already know what it's describing. [/QUOTE]

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