This is my proto-theory for finding where you stand on fantasy.  Basically are you a veg man or a big fruit?

Picture a line running from left to right.  At the left side of this line is a label marked Fruit.  At the right end is a label marked Veg.  Fruity games are those that include the weirder and more fantastical settings - like Reign (which is what prompted this line of thought).  At the other end are the veggie games, games set in a more realistic setting.  At the very end of the Veg line is our world.

Now picture another line forming a cross ( + ).  At the top of the line theres a label marked High fantasy and at the bottom one marked Low fantasy.  Sitting near the top is LoTR, towards the bottom is stuff like Conan.

So where does your favourite game sit.  For me Reign sits on the left hand side of the grid, towards the top as well.  A good old fruity, high fantasy setting.  Which is a change for me because normally I'd label myself as a low fantasy veg man - sticking to stuff like WHFRP and Conan.

Thoughts?

Tp paraphrase Joseph Heller:
There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind that think there are two kinds of people in the world, and everybody else.

I am a veggie man myself.  I like the gritty Sword & Sorcery stuff.  Although I do likes me some Tekumel...is that fruity?  


TGA

Initially I'd say Tekumel was on the fruity side of the fence.  As to its height or deoth I couldn't say.  But you could argue it was a veggie setting (having  science fiction roots - roots, geddit!)

I'm really not sure as to the point of this theory, except I like it.

I like both at the same time, really.

One of the most appealing books for an RPG I've ever read was Manacle and Coin for Exalted 1st Ed. That book made the point that Exalted was not just a game about anime heroes, but that it was a game about anime superheroes in a plausible and "realistic" setting that was fleshed out. The "realism" they were talking about meant a world where moral ambiguity and power politics were the order of the day, where motivation was not unequivocally good or evil, and where logic, economics, history and sociology informed the descriptions they provided of Creation and its function.

Now, I personally think Exalted eventually failed at this, but I've always kept that as an ideal when building worlds.