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<blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 3935366" data-attributes="member: 32164">To be fair, Paizo is only known for their great fluff if you happen to like the fluff Paizo writes. The &quot;goodness&quot; of fluff is highly subjective. Paizo has spent a few years getting people used to their kind of fluff while they ran Dragon and Dungeon. There are people who love the fluff Monte Cook writes (Ptolus, anyone?). But if you're not fond of it, then it's not so great.Personally, I find the Great Wheel, the Blood War, Sigil and a lot of the rest of D&amp;D's legacy fluff pretty crappy. I haven't seen a whole lot of inspiring fluff in Paizo's works, and, nice artwork aside, Pathfinder doesn't really &quot;do it&quot; for me. Eberron, on the other hand, which was done by Rich Baker and James Wyatt, among others, has some awfully nice fluff. Now I know some of that is Keith Baker, but he's had a lot of help from the other guys at WotC who are the &quot;story team&quot; for 4e. So I'm optimistic.I think where they occasionally have trouble is being original while treading the line between &quot;evocative&quot; and &quot;non-cheesy&quot; - a not insignificant task.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnSnow, post: 3935366, member: 32164"] To be fair, Paizo is only known for their great fluff if you happen to like the fluff Paizo writes. The "goodness" of fluff is highly subjective. Paizo has spent a few years getting people used to their kind of fluff while they ran [i]Dragon[/i] and [i]Dungeon.[/i] There are people who love the fluff Monte Cook writes ([i]Ptolus[/i], anyone?). But if you're not fond of it, then it's not so great. Personally, I find the Great Wheel, the Blood War, Sigil and a lot of the rest of D&D's legacy fluff pretty crappy. I haven't seen a whole lot of inspiring fluff in Paizo's works, and, nice artwork aside, [i]Pathfinder[/i] doesn't really "do it" for me. [i]Eberron[/i], on the other hand, which was done by Rich Baker and James Wyatt, among others, has some awfully nice fluff. Now I know some of that is Keith Baker, but he's had a lot of help from the other guys at WotC who are the "story team" for 4e. So I'm optimistic. I think where they occasionally have trouble is being original while treading the line between "evocative" and "non-cheesy" - a not insignificant task. [/QUOTE]

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