Epic Fantasy
| 1 votes | | High Fantasy
| 0 votes | | Sword and Sorcery
| 1 votes | | Heroic Fantasy
| 0 votes | | Low Fantasy
| 0 votes | | Steampunk
| 1 votes | | Urban Fantasy
| 0 votes | | Silly Fantasy
| 1 votes | | Future Fantasy
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QS2
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Re: Poll - Favorite Subgenre
You know, I feel like I'm getting in to a pattern here and all, because well you know, you didn't include an other feature. 
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1/27/2008, 1:34 pm
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Re: Poll - Favorite Subgenre
Well nothing major of course, but there are so many possible niche classes. Besides, aren't you always supposed to have an other? 
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1/27/2008, 6:13 pm
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Loud G
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Re: Poll - Favorite Subgenre
I must say, Epic is my favorite. I like broad sweeping stories where fate and life and existence hang in the balance, where the heroes are fighting for something more than survival of a single country/city/culture but everyone. I like apocalyptic signs and portents, big events, etc. 
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1/28/2008, 1:48 pm
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Reythia
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You know, I went and took a serious look over the list of options, then decided not to vote. I really don't prefer one "genre" over another. What I really like is a sense of realism inherent in the fantasy, and to me, that has little or nothing to do with the broad setting. For example, I generally prefer stories where the characters come across as real people, rather than fantasy-style cut-outs. Also, I like plots that seem feasible and enemies that are human, at least in their emotional range. I like a good epic sometimes, where The Hero And Pals has to save the world, but not if the only motivation for The Enemy is to be the biggest, baddest Bad Guy ever. I like stories set in the bronze age, iron age, and middle ages, as well as ones set on starships and planets far away.
What I find most appealing is a story that is NEW -- one that doesn't have me immediately thinking: "Okay, here's the farmboy that's going to get the <insert name of Cool Magical Item> and stop <insert name of Big Bad Guy> from destroying the world. And here are his team: the Older, More-Knowledgable Gandalf-like Leader, the Thief, the Female Love Interest Who Plays Hard To Get, the Guy With The Really Big Sword..."
I guess, basically, setting isn't all that important to me. Characters are, and plot, but not setting.
You know.... I just had an idea for a neat little contest. Give the participants a set of characters and a definted plot point, including a conclusion. Then have them write the same story again, but in different settings. For example, one person writes from the classic "Elves, Dwarves, and Dragons Low-Tech Fantasy World" while another writes for modern-day Earth and a third sets the same tale on a starship a thousand years in the future. I think that it'd be easy enough to write the same story, with basically the same characters, even in such different settings.
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1/28/2008, 8:14 pm
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Reythia
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Oh -- and what in the world is "steampunk", out of curiosity?
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1/28/2008, 8:15 pm
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Re: Poll - Favorite Subgenre
Personally I'd say steampunk is fantasy set in a world/ worlds where steampower is still prominent. It's usually got a lot of Victorian or Edwardian features, especially in regards to society, culture, ethics and general aesthetics. There's often a lot of stuff taken from H G Wells and Jules Verne. It is good for alternate or now-defunct technologies such as dirigibles and steam-powered engines, or having modern technology discovered/invented earlier and s developing with old-fashioned sensibilities and ethics.
Wild Wild West, for example, is steampunk meets westerns, meets Will Smith.
I'll just see if wikipedia agrees with me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
Yeah pretty much; it adds that it's related to, but significantly different from, cyberpunk. I think steampunk is cyberpunk's more optomistic and well-mannered cousin.
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1/28/2008, 8:49 pm
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Reythia
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Ah, I see. Thanks, guys.
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1/28/2008, 9:04 pm
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Blitzen
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Re: Poll - Favorite Subgenre
I voted steam punk. I love steampunk.
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1/29/2008, 9:06 pm
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