Question of the Week – Fantasy Settings

It’s time for Question of the Week, which is designed to inspire enjoyable discussions of interesting topics.

This week’s question – what is your favorite style of fantasy setting? Like a more high fantasy one like Middle-Earth or the Forgotten Realms, urban fantasy like the Dresden Files or Kate Daniels, more steampunk like Eberron, and so on?

No wrong answers, obviously.

For myself, I think my favorite would be a pre-industrial setting with a lot of city-states and various dangerous magic. Like you can have a barbarian hero wandering from city-state to city-state, with monster-infested ruins and wilderness between them. When he gets to the city-states, he can fight corrupt sorcerers, arrogant nobles, and thieves’ guilds, and then move on to a new adventure in the next book. So basically a sword-and-sorcery style setting.

-JM