Editing Fluff (section)

== Examples of Fluff Overwhelming Mechanics ==
* In [[Games Workshop]]'s official fluff for ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', the [[Space Marines]] fluff describes them as extremely hardcore super warriors who regularly achieve kill-to-death ratios somewhere in the order of several thousand to one (unless you're Cain, Gaunt, VANCE MOTHERFUCHING STUBBS, Marbo or a Kasrkin). When you actually play the game, the crunch of their statistics are not nearly as good as the fluff would suggest, else a balanced game would require one Space Marine mini to be 300 points or greater.  This is just when they fight alone; when they fight together, they truly show their demi-gods of war status.  Together, a squad of Iron Snakes in Dan Abnett's book "Brothers of the Snake" killed ''ten thousand'' Dark Eldar in one fight within a building whose ceiling was so high it could literally not be seen.  By the end of the battle, the Eldar corpses were piled so high that the Space Marines had to stoop so as not to hit their head on said ceiling.  This is also one of the few stories in which a Space Marine actively uses his acid spit in combat (to melt a Dark Eldar Archon's ''face'').
**Also Tyranids are described as the deadliest menace for the whole galaxy, what can be defeated by only the most heroic, the most valiant, and the most destructive battles ever fought in the WH40k, but still, GeeDubs doesn't seem to like this faction, and constantly make them weaker and weaker, so actually they're not half as powerful as they are described - to say it polite.
* [[Tiefling]]s in [[4e|D&D4e]] have a history of a culture that long ago made pacts with devils, that have since expired and have no mechanical effect on the game. There are no rules that discourages good nor lawful good behaviour, and they gain no bonuses for being bad guys, and yet players that use tiefling characters will always take the roles of sinister jerks. "But I played a tiefling that was all noble and selfless --" yeah, but you thought that made her a special unique snowflake, didn't you?