Standard Fantasy Setting: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"There's something terribly ''weird'' about the standard fantasy setting, not least of which that 'Standard Fantasy Setting' can be uttered completely without irony. Look at us; we're a civilization so steeped in escapism that we've managed to find mundanity in something that doesn't exist and never will (no matter what your [[Furry Fandom|Otherkin]] friend might say). Why is it accepted fact that [[Our Elves Are Better|Elves]] fire bows and arrows and commune with trees? That was [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien's]] thing; without him, elves would just about be qualified to sell Rice Krispies. And he made [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarves]] wear braided beards and wield battle-axes. Real dwarves don't do that, they get hired by Lucasfilm or take corporate office jobs because they're an equal-opportunity bonanza. Are we all but children, playing eternally on the same swingset while JRR is the grumpy dad watching from the park bench and trying not to get aroused?"''|[[Ben Croshaw|Yahtzee]] [[Zero Punctuation|in his review of]] ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]''.}}

 

 

''[[The Tough Guide to Fantasyland]]'' by [[Diana Wynne Jones]] will tell you pretty much everything you would like to know about the place (minus a few [[Dead Horse Trope|dead horses]] and [[Dead Unicorn Trope|unicorns]]). See also [[Airport Novel]]. For the antithesis of '''Standard Fantasy Setting'''-style fantasy see [[Urban Fantasy]], [[Magical Realism]] and [[Mundane Fantastic]].

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Either a [[Rebellious Princess]] or a [[Princess Classic]] will do.

* [[Our Dragons Are Different|Dragons]]: Dragons are, after all, central to both the [[Trope Maker]] ([[The Hobbit]]) and the [[Trope Codifier]] (Dungeons and '''Dragons''')

 

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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** The ''[[Dragonlance]]'' series.

** R. A. Salvatore's [[Forgotten Realms|Drizzt novels]].

* ''[[Shadowrun]]''.

* [[Talislanta]].

* [[Empire of the Petal Throne|Tékumel]].

 

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