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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zweischneid" data-source="post: 1923779" data-attributes="member: 11843">Well, for myself, I'd like to question the notion that Races of Destiny is a particularly fluffy book.I think the major appeal of RoD is the crunchy parts. The whole Illuman Sigils and the Chameleon PrC, etc.. really tickly the stat-tinkerer in me.Sadly though.. crunch is not enough to sell a product to me.I agree that this is a highly subjective point, but lets compare two cases to highlight my point. If you take the amount of adventure/story potential the Illumans (with Feats & PrC, background stories and all, like 40 pages of coverage.. maybe more) would potentially introduce into a campaign as to, say the Eberron Warforged (Feats & PrC and all, about 5 to 7 pages of coverage) have opened up in my (and it seems many other peoples) campaigns, then the RoD fluff is not only exceedingly bad (IMO), but also spread very, very thin. So 1: Not any dumb filler between the numbers is fluff, and not any kind of fluff (infact not even a majority of fluff) is worth buying it... note: it has to be good.That in mind, I will always and most defenitly follow through on my standards and purchase any and every book that I consider to be good or excellent fluff. Despite my running Dawnforge Campaign (uhh.. more bad crunch but such nice fluff) I've picked up the Eberron Campaign setting on this sites recommendation two months or so ago and certainly found it very, very pleasing (though again.. the crunch might be average at best) So 2: I tend to by books based more on fluff than on crunchAs always though, good fluff is far harder to come by than good numbers.. given a few years experience with D&D I find myself writing up Prestige Classes and Feats without any greater hassle (thats why I see no need to buy books with them). I still don't claim to be able to write a good and inspiring story though.. for that, I would (and do) lay money down without a second thought.So 3: I tend, as a customer, to spend my money on books with fluffSince RoD doesn't fill that need, my christmas money goes into the new Neal Stephenson Novel.. to bad WoTC.So 1,2, & 3: RoD does not satisfy the need for fluff. -- > I will not buy it because it lacks the right amount of fluff.</blockquote>

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