Yeah, fantasy settings are a dime a dozen. They tend to include magical spells, impossible creatures, lots and lots of needlessly spiky clothing and armor, weird leather fetishes, big pauldrons, silly beardless long-haired pointy-eared elves, few helmets, revealing female clothing, and a disproportionate amount of attractive young women who are perfectly willing to romp around the countryside killing people. When I saw the second Narnia movie, I was rooting for the Telmarines the whole time. Who couldn't love a society of all-human, magic-less, gloriously armored, crossbow-wielding people who fought to cleanse their new homeland of silly magic and talking animals using only their skill and cunning? I loved their blend of 16th/17th century Spanish and medieval European features.
Obviously, there are some good fantasy things, like LotR, which I'd probably love if I were into that sort of thing. But I really like more historical or semi-historical settings. It's nearly impossible to find any good games with a medieval setting that don't contain fantasy. That's one of many reasons that I'm so excited for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. People assume that the Middle Ages were totally boring without mages and warlocks and leather clothing, but I think that kind of history is fascinating.
Pretty interesting stuff actually ^^
I finally meet someone as pun-meistery as me! I should knight you, young Synsensa.
