Which do you prefer,
High Fantasy or Low Fantasy?
strawpoll.me
Which do you prefer
Gavin Perry
Gabriel Davis
Depends on the setting.
Didn't vote in your pointless survey, because depends on the setting.
Kayden Garcia
Fair enough, survey is just there for shits and giggles
And yeah I completely agree that its very dependent on the setting, I guess I should have worded the OP differently, maybe "Which appeals to you more?"
Carter Williams
Pic unrelated to post, I see
Nolan Torres
High Fantasy with a low power level. You can have as much magic and outlandish setting detail as you want, just don't let the player characters become over-powered videogame game protagonists by level 5 like DnD and all it's derivatives do.
Sebastian Evans
>"Which appeals to you more?"
Still would depend on the setting.
Henry Wright
It would help if you knew the original definitions were:
High Fantasy: Whole-cloth fabrication of a new world. It's not Earth.
Low Fantasy: It's Earth, but with magic which isn't supposed to be there.
Daniel Lopez
Huh, I always just thought it was "High Magic Fantasy" and "Low Magic Fantasy" but people just omitted magic to save time.
Sorry for being a plebian, I just thought it would be a fun thing to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of both styles
Thanks for the heads up though
Anthony King
That's also wrong. It's low fantasy if there's any kind of connection to Earth. Narnia and The Worm Ouroboros are both low fantasy, as is almost all fantasy that came before Lord of the Rings.
Levi Jackson
Be careful with phrases like 'original definitions', user.
But yeah, OP, try to define your terms better, especially when you have a pic that fucks up what you're going for that badly. John Carter of Mars is not even remotely close to Low Fantasy, by anyone's definitions.