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flavor text

noun

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  1. Text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game or a menu in a video…

    Text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game or a menu in a video game which does not affect the game's mechanics, but gives background information on characters, places, etc. to enhance the game's atmosphere.

    • In the old days of Magic the Gathering, the flavor text was almost all serious, sometimes even with quotes from Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe thrown in.
    • One reason why cards are now much more popular, and dice less, in tabletop games is that cards can include colorful, varied, interesting illustrations and brief “flavor text.”

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for flavor text. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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