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<blockquote data-quote="GX.Sigma" data-source="post: 6227501" data-attributes="member: 6690511">Basic set: Less than 100 pages.PHB, MM, DMG: If they're any less than 320, I will be disappointed.I don't really understand the distinction between fluff and crunch. Each piece of content needs to be fluff and crunch, or else it is useless to me. The only difference is the way it's presented. For example, consider two excerpts from the 2e Gibberling entry.&quot;They come screaming, jabbering, and howling out of the night. Dozens, maybe hundreds, of hunchbacked, naked humanoids swarm unceasingly forward...&quot;and&quot;Activity Cycle: Night...No. Appearing: 40-400&quot;They both tell me exactly the same thing in different ways. The discrete data are more useful to me than the paragraphs upon paragraphs, so I would say I prefer mechanics to prose. Is there some virtue in having both? I don't know; is there some reason the text says they &quot;always fight to the death,&quot; even though the stat block says they're more cowardly than kobolds?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GX.Sigma, post: 6227501, member: 6690511"] Basic set: Less than 100 pages. PHB, MM, DMG: If they're any less than 320, I will be disappointed. I don't really understand the distinction between fluff and crunch. Each piece of content needs to be fluff [I]and[/I] crunch, or else it is useless to me. The only difference is the way it's presented. For example, consider two excerpts from the 2e Gibberling entry. "They come screaming, jabbering, and howling out of the night. Dozens, maybe hundreds, of hunchbacked, naked humanoids swarm unceasingly forward..." and "Activity Cycle: Night ... No. Appearing: 40-400" They both tell me exactly the same thing in different ways. The discrete data are more useful to me than the paragraphs upon paragraphs, so I would say I prefer [I]mechanics[/I] to [I]prose[/I]. Is there some virtue in having both? I don't know; is there some reason the text says they "always fight to the death," even though the stat block says they're more cowardly than kobolds? [/QUOTE]

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