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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2112391" data-attributes="member: 463">Personally I agree that fluff has pejorative connotations and that the fluff/crunch dichotomy seems to have been developed by those who prefer crunch.  The inherent superiority of crunch over fluff is an easy conclusion to draw from the way WoTC materials emphasise rules over flavour text - their material is largely lacking in flavour, and this approach is often _praised_ by the acolytes of crunch.  Personally I prefer (EDIT) fluff to crunch*, I like to acquire rules mastery (and I think I have w 3e now, after 4.5 years of GMing) in a system, at which point I can do my own crunch just fine, thank you.  Whereas flavour, or fluff, is the stuff that actually inspires me to want to GM or play.  Just because fluff has IMO pejorative origins doesn't mean I would seek to prevent use of the term, however.  I'll merely expostulate the superiority of fluff over crunch within my own teleological narrative.  <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=";)" />*The fact that I initially wrote "crunch to fluff" may itself be indicative of the connotations these words have upon the disengaged brain.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></blockquote>

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