D&D 5th Editon Discussion: 6th thread and counting

[kyoryu]

I'm passingly familiar with Champions, and I think I get your point (that a system with no fluff can work), but this isn't Champions (or GURPs, etc)... this is D&D.

From my POV, part of what makes D&D attractive to me personally is the baseline flavor, such as the cosmology of Inner and Outer Planes, the grumpy Dwarf, the haughty Elf, etc. It helps me have a common expected starting point from which to build upon.

Well, that's half of my point. The other half is what you glommed onto, and that's the fact that a full separation of fluff and crunch ends up with something like Champions, where you don't have a sword, you have a 2d killing attack with an obvious removable focus.

D&D has pretty well always integrated fluff and crunch to a certain extent.