ratio of rules to background, what should or is the right balance?

[Nightfall]

Np Ken. If you need more ideas, feel free to bounce them off me. I'm bored enough!

 

[mmadsen]

I was just thinking of an unintended consequence of the rules supplement. When you buy a setting supplement with a few "crunchy bit", those bits are often, well, crunchy. When you buy a rules supplement, you often get an example of applied combinatorics. "OK, we need a second-level, acid effect spell, with a Will save..."