flavor text

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 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.