Fantasy

Basic Information

Fantasy is a genre and type of speculative fiction, usually involving settings where magic or other supernatural powers exist, without attempts to explain them scientifically.

Subgenres

• Heroic Fantasy
  • Sword and Sandals
  • Sword and Sorcery
• Heroic Fantasy Sources
• High Fantasy
• Low Fantasy
• Medieval European Fantasy
• Science Fantasy - sometimes conflated with Space Opera
• Urban Fantasy

See Also:

• Fantasy Kitchen Sink
• Functional Magic
• Medieval Stasis
• Standard Fantasy Setting

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki entry

2. Wikipedia entry

Game and Story Use

• Thanks to Dungeons & Dragons and its spiritual successors, this is the single most frequent genre for role-playing games.