What is the appeal of Low Fantasy?
I don't really get it, most of the time low fantasy settings are just medieval fantasy settings with less stuff muh gritty memes.
I like some settings like that but it's always because they have some flavor and not because of the low fantasy.
Is that a meme caused by Games of the Throne and a false perception that there are too high fantasy settings and making a low fantasy setting is somehow enough to be good and original?
Like the Grim Dark memers unironically thinking you are mature if you are bleak and edgy all the time and you must be a child to ever dare to disagree with them?
What is the appeal of Low Fantasy?
Jayden King
Matthew Hall
Personally, I'm just tired of caster superiority.
Dominic Hernandez
>Low fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction, set in a fictional but rational world, as opposed to high fantasy stories, which take place in a fictional world with its own set of rules and physical laws
From Wikipedia. More realistic stories can be enjoyable. You've used ASOIAF as an example. ASOIAF is good because it's a heavily detailed world with a deep history and interaction between characters. It doesn't rely on high fantasy tropes to be good.
Jordan Roberts
>why do people like this thing I will generalize incorrectly that I do not like?
Go fuck yourself kid.
Tyler King
>Calls Game of Thrones an edgy, grimdark low fantasy
>OP pic depicts Robert Baratheon fighting prince Rhaegar Targaryen
>Is titled "High fantasy"
Huh. Really took my noggin' joggin'
Joshua Murphy
>It doesn't rely on high fantasy tropes to be good.
Actually, it does, when you really think about it. Take Daenerys out of context, for example. An evil overlord invading the kingdom with an army of dragons, foreign mercenaries, savages and strange eunuchs. Her coat of arms is a red dragon on a black field, and her words are "Fire and blood". She even has Tyrion - an ugly, malformed, constantly scheming henchman. He's a dwarf instead of a hunchback, but you get the idea.
Now, we, the readers, know that Daenerys is actually a noble, if misguided, soul, but Quentyn's chapters give us a pretty clear idea of how literally everyone in the story views her - with utter terror.
Colton Nelson
>What is the appeal of High Fantasy?
>I don't really get it, most of the time high fantasy settings are just medieval fantasy settings with more stuff muh 'magic ain't gotta explain shit' memes.
Copypasta copypasta, Etc, etc, etc. you get the idea.
I'm bored so here's your (You)
Benjamin Rogers
Low fantasy is for when you want to tell medieval story, but don't want to pick up history book or wikipedia. It's nice little literary loophole for being lazy.
John Hernandez
Autism mostly
Dylan Cox
I mean, I'm not against it per se but most of the time they don't even really do that.