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Dungeons and Dragons Wiki (D&D-wiki) is, for the most part, full of crunch. Crunch is a slang term for rules, statistics, and figures in Dungeons & Dragons, as opposed to fluff, which is text describing the game world and its elements.
Crunch is only banned on specific pages, that being the lore pages of a creature, person, etc. Statistic blocks and most other game-based statistics should be left out of the lore pages, in favor of descriptive text to the same effect. D&D-wiki infoboxes can contain certain crunch such as:
- Character level
- Character class
Acceptable crunch found within the body of the article can contain:
- Spell names
- Magical item names
- Basic magic item properties, such as +3 (for the purposes of comparison)
There are plenty of sources on the Internet for gaining crunch, so it is not necessary to duplicate crunch from the standard reference documents or any source material (potentially infringing copyright), but rather links can be provided to such content instead where legally available. The focus of the wiki is not only providing an encyclopedic game manual, but it's also providing an encyclopedic reference to Dungeons and Dragons people, places, and life.