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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OchreJelly" data-source="post: 5226142" data-attributes="member: 62056">This issue sort of cuts both ways.  With too much fluff you have the old Forgotten Realms "Problem" where the world is already pretty well carved out with less room for the DM to make changes.  And even if they do makes changes, other player subject-matter-experts may be upset by such cannon changes.  I personally have never seen this, but I have heard that this has been an issue at some tables.  With too little fluff, a DM may have just too little to work with.  Likewise it can make for some pretty dry reading.  For me, I feel like they have bridged the line pretty adequately for 4E.  In fact the designers for MM3 have taken some of the lack of fluff criticism to heart and provided more fluff for that particular MM.</blockquote>