Flavor Text in Games

I have not made any game of my own yet. But as a player, I think that good flavor text is pretty important, but not "vital", though. I like reading flavor text of CCG. Specially L5R. But I don

I concur with Darke in that flavor text shouldn

Three in a row! How annoying. Anyway...

The best use of flavor text, the one that I enjoy the most and makes the most sense is incorporating it into the rules where the idea of so many good games it to convey a theme. Games like Princes of Florence, Tikal, Mexica, Puerto Rico all convey a degree of rules-base flavor text to help the players understand how the mechanics of the games are more than simple abstractions, but are indeed tied intricately into the premise of the game. To me, tying flavor text into the rules to convey theme is flavor text at it