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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philosopher" data-source="post: 5045129" data-attributes="member: 76803">Hold on. If what you say is a serious concern, then that would undermine the whole point of having campaign settings.At the end you acknowledge that some assumed details need to be in place. But the rest of your arguments imply a rather strong claim, that flavor text is a bad thing because it gets in the way of having fun. If you acknowledge that some flavor needs to be there, then you can't actually mean that stronger claim. The only question then that remains, then, is how much flavor to include. If that's the question, then issues about some players' inability to deviate from it is moot, and it's that issue (which I'm saying is now moot) that I was objecting to.So if the question is indeed how much flavor to include, I'd say more should be there than what's found in the 4e books. Perhaps this is now in the territory of mere opinion. Perhaps not. The above argument for not including flavor, however, does not work. Likewise, the consideration of limited space does not establish the case against flavor either, for reasons I've mentioned earlier (that individual 2e books were no more prohibitive in cost than the current books).</blockquote>