flavor text

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flavour text

Noun

flavor text (countable and uncountable, plural flavor texts)

(chiefly card games) Text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game which does not affect the game's mechanics, but gives background information on characters, places, etc. to enhance the game's atmosphere.
- 2008, Game Developer, Volume 15, Issues 7-11, unknown page:
  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.
- 2012, Lewis Pulsipher, Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish, McFarland & Company (2012), →ISBN, page 129:
  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.”
- 2014, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press (2014), →ISBN, page 104:
  The metaphysical taxonomy of reality in magic systems occurs to varying degrees of depth, ranging from flavor text in small or large amounts (the backs of Magic: The Gathering cards exemplify short flavor text, while the codexes/codices in Dragon Age contain more elaborate philosophical ruminations) to deep integration with gameplay.

单词	flavor text
释义	flavor text English Alternative forms flavour text Noun flavor text (countable and uncountable, plural flavor texts) (chiefly card games) Text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game which does not affect the game's mechanics, but gives background information on characters, places, etc. to enhance the game's atmosphere. 2008, Game Developer, Volume 15, Issues 7-11, unknown page: 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. 2012, Lewis Pulsipher, Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish, McFarland & Company (2012), →ISBN, page 129: 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.” 2014, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press (2014), →ISBN, page 104: The metaphysical taxonomy of reality in magic systems occurs to varying degrees of depth, ranging from flavor text in small or large amounts (the backs of Magic: The Gathering cards exemplify short flavor text, while the codexes/codices in Dragon Age contain more elaborate philosophical ruminations) to deep integration with gameplay.
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