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<blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 1478313" data-attributes="member: 2182">Flavor TextIt seems to me that most RPG rule books that I have read are written at a middle school reading level at the highest. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing.&nbsp; Afterall, RPG books are meant to provide players with rules, not be a verbose, complex treatise.&nbsp; If the language gets to complex, the rules become obscure.However, I am disappointed with much of the flavor text being written at such a low reading level.&nbsp; Unlike the rules, flavor text is written to add flavor to the characters and setting.&nbsp; I have read way too many badly written passages of flavor text.&nbsp; This really annoys me when the flavor text is describing an ancient or mythical setting, but it includes a huge amount of modern day slang expressions or colloquialisms.&nbsp; Nothing destroys the atmosphere more than modern colloquialisms!&nbsp; Flavor text doesn't have to include archaic verb forms and obscure language, but I would really like to see some flavor text written above the middle school reading level!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shadow, post: 1478313, member: 2182"] [b]Flavor Text[/b] It seems to me that most RPG rule books that I have read are written at a middle school reading level at the highest. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. Afterall, RPG books are meant to provide players with rules, not be a verbose, complex treatise. If the language gets to complex, the rules become obscure. However, I am disappointed with much of the flavor text being written at such a low reading level. Unlike the rules, flavor text is written to add flavor to the characters and setting. I have read way too many badly written passages of flavor text. This really annoys me when the flavor text is describing an ancient or mythical setting, but it includes a huge amount of modern day slang expressions or colloquialisms. Nothing destroys the atmosphere more than modern colloquialisms! Flavor text doesn't have to include archaic verb forms and obscure language, but I would really like to see some flavor text written above the middle school reading level! [/QUOTE]

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