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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1242668" data-attributes="member: 10201">Interesting that you assume there's nobody who'd prefer more fluff than crunch.  I assure you, i do exist.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  There are probably more of me, too.Well, i've long wished that the splat books for the WoD games would split the content up differently.  Instead of one book with new powers and traits, nifty items, background, and RPing advice for each splat, i'd so much prefer one book with all the new powers, traits, and items (the crunchy bits) for all the splats for a gameline, and a separate book with all the backgrounds and RPing stuff for all the splats.  Then i could just buy the fluffy book, which is all i'd use, while pretty much every other WoD gamer i've met could just buy the crunchy book, which's all they'd use, and neither of us would have to put up with all that "wasted pagecount" in our books.  I base this on the fact that i've met lots of gamers who are very biased towards the crunchy bits or the fluffy elements, but i've met few or none who only buy one or two splat books for a game (whether that be WoD, D&D, or something else).  IME, those who buy splatbooks want the whole set (even if they're always a player), and i've yet to personally meet the gamer who only bought one of them ("because it's the type of character they play"--but maybe that's because i've met very few "typecast" RPers).  At "worst", most will buy the one that most appeals to them first, rather than the first one to come out first. But i'm fully prepared to admit that, somehow, all the gamers i've known are a skewed selection.I'd buy that for D&D players--by now, they're bound to be a self-selected group favoring crunch, 'cause if you prefer fluff you'll probably start playing a less-crunchy game.  Doesn't mean it applies to gamers as a whole.  You can't tell me that people who buy OtE or Sorcerer supplements would prefer crunch-heavy books.</blockquote>

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