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<blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 1404280" data-attributes="member: 6318">Very much so. I argue the same as often as I think it won't be tiresome -- <a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=193904" target="_blank">here</a>, for instance. 'Fluff' is inconsequential, trivial, unsubstantial, quite the opposite of what world material actually is -- the lore comes first, the rules are just a representation of it. Before 'fluff' entered the online d20 lexicon it was used by Warhammer players in a clearly rules-first context. Imagine going up to some author and telling them you love their latest fluff -- that would be idiotic. It's not consistently used or understood.'Flavor' is better, though it makes me think of artificial flavourings (partly because 'flavor' is an artificial spelling of the word), something added on ('Hmm, must write 500 words more flavor text'). Source material, world information, lore, content, descriptive text, etc. are better.And then I don't much like RPG jargon in general, or the idea of 'gamers' with a walled-off self-congratulatory subculture. But that's a bigger question.Am I right in guessing 'crunch' is a contraction of 'crunchy bits' coined by Robin Laws in Robin's Laws? (I don't use that one either, but it's not as embarrassing.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faraer, post: 1404280, member: 6318"] Very much so. I argue the same as often as I think it won't be tiresome -- [url=http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=193904]here[/url], for instance. 'Fluff' is inconsequential, trivial, unsubstantial, quite the opposite of what world material actually is -- the lore comes first, the rules are just a representation of it. Before 'fluff' entered the online d20 lexicon it was used by Warhammer players in a clearly rules-first context. Imagine going up to some author and telling them you love their latest fluff -- that would be idiotic. It's not consistently used or understood. 'Flavor' is better, though it makes me think of artificial flavourings (partly because 'flavor' is an artificial spelling of the word), something added on ('Hmm, must write 500 words more flavor text'). Source material, world information, lore, content, descriptive text, etc. are better. And then I don't much like RPG jargon in general, or the idea of 'gamers' with a walled-off self-congratulatory subculture. But that's a bigger question. Am I right in guessing 'crunch' is a contraction of 'crunchy bits' coined by Robin Laws in [i]Robin's Laws[/i]? (I don't use that one either, but it's not as embarrassing.) [/QUOTE]

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