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<blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8515136" data-attributes="member: 7030755">“Lore” encompasses a variety of things, and can be useful or not useful depending on presentation. Gameable lore/fluff are things I can drop into my game with minimal effort. Things like locations, npcs, factions, special items—all of that is great (depending on the writing at least).&nbsp; Detailed cosmology and ancient history are less useful to me in that way. Eg 2000 years ago there was a powerful wizard who built a tower in the land of whatever. That’s useful if the party is now exploring said ruined tower, in which case please give me a map and key, but less useful as a generic entry in a timeline. Or, god x forgot to give god y a birthday gift and now there is an eternal feud between them. Useful if you give me a roster and plots connected to the birthday cult, less useful if it’s a line lost amid sprawling, verbose prose.bonus points if your lore gives me options. For example, the mm describes orcs as “savage raiders.”&nbsp; If I don’t want to use that lore, there’s no option number two. So I end up just using the stat block while making up my own lore, except now I have a book that’s padded out with a bunch of lore that I don’t want to use.&nbsp;&nbsp; I sold my copy of volos for this reasonI love rpg books, but I rarely sit down and read them cover to cover like a novel. So usually I want to grok the basic idea of the game and then let add things in, whether mechanics or setting info, piece by piece in a kind of decentralized fashion</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malmuria, post: 8515136, member: 7030755"] “Lore” encompasses a variety of things, and can be useful or not useful depending on presentation. [I]Gameable[/I] lore/fluff are things I can drop into my game with minimal effort. Things like locations, npcs, factions, special items—all of that is great (depending on the writing at least). Detailed cosmology and ancient history are less useful to me in that way. Eg 2000 years ago there was a powerful wizard who built a tower in the land of whatever. That’s useful if the party is now exploring said ruined tower, in which case please give me a map and key, but less useful as a generic entry in a timeline. Or, god x forgot to give god y a birthday gift and now there is an eternal feud between them. Useful if you give me a roster and plots connected to the birthday cult, less useful if it’s a line lost amid sprawling, verbose prose. bonus points if your lore gives me options. For example, the mm describes orcs as “savage raiders.” If I don’t want to use that lore, there’s no option number two. So I end up just using the stat block while making up my own lore, except now I have a book that’s padded out with a bunch of lore that I don’t want to use. I sold my copy of volos for this reason I love rpg books, but I rarely sit down and read them cover to cover like a novel. So usually I want to grok the basic idea of the game and then let add things in, whether mechanics or setting info, piece by piece in a kind of decentralized fashion [/QUOTE]

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