Within the three core books collectively, what's the % of 4E Flavor Text?

[MerricB]

Not only do they have to have read the books, they have to care enough to enter the thread, think about it, and answer the question.

Indeed. It's also a low percentage... and has been in every single edition of the game. And what's flavour text anyway?

(Do you know, I think it's lower in AD&D 1e...)

Cheers!

 

[Mark]

Indeed. It's also a low percentage...

10% or lower, would you say?

 

[MerricB]

10% or lower, would you say?

I really don't know, because I haven't looked at the books with that sort of detail in mind. However, that could be a fair assessment. Or not.

It isn't 50%. It's lower than that.

Looking at random pages in the PHB:
page 119: power descriptions. A standard power description has between 1-3 lines of description, and 5-10 lines of mechanics. Say 20% fluff.

page 116: rogue description - about 50% fluff, 50% mechanics

page 34-35: dragonborn description - about 80% flavour, 20% mechanics

Cheers!

 

[Mark]

I really don't know, because I haven't looked at the books with that sort of detail in mind.

I guess most people do not feel confident enough in how well they know the texts to assess the percentage. Perhaps I should bump this thread after the holidays and see if more people feel they have a better handle on things then.

 

[malraux]

Its also hard to know how to weight things. There's fluff and then there's fluff. The descriptions of powers is fluff, but certainly its less fluffy than descriptions of how the planes work. And the MM fluff is hard to know how crunchy is the fluff burried inside the knowledge DC checks.

 

[bagger245]

No offence but the books look like nicely-layouted SRDs to me with abit of fluff.