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There we go, and I am a jerk for missing the link. To me, the fantasy genre is not synonymous with modern fantasy. The former contains any and all stories that contain fantasy tropes, the latter contains only those written in the context of the modern world, and our modern view of what is and...

To be honest, I always got the impression that McGonagall is a lesbian.

You're accusing me of a few things with this post that I think I should address. First of all, I'm not putting myself out as a standard. I've pointed out the terms by which I have been taught that genre is defined. Namely, it is a convenience using sets of tropes to say this is like that...

He never married. We never see him romance a female character, especially in a school crawling with older women, amongst which he could be the alpha male if he so wished. He heaps attention upon his male protege, Harry Potter. Finally, while all other professors have at least small details...

Yeah. He's a big old gay. He likes dudes. Sorry. I'm doing no such thing, but if you want to recognize that modern fantasy and romance are both part of a greater fantasy genre, we can do that.

Well, travel to a lost world is a fantasy trope. I'm not invoking Plato. Genres exist upon the sharing of a common trope. Two things use the same trope, they have a genre that can be defined. But there is no perfect divine example of each genre that all works of art intend towards. And...

I'm not so exasperated anymore, so I can put this politely. Hussar, your problem is that you are confusing what a literary category is with a literary genre. Genre is just a collection of common tropes that can be used to say this [book] is like that [book] because of these tropes. Thus...

I don't know if playing MMOs will hurt someone's ability to play RPGs. Sure, they're going to come to the table with certain assumptions that will be unfulfilled, but the minute they realize they can get their instant reward by killing your NPC and taking his stuff instead of taking his hook...

I feel that, man. The question becomes, should it be a pre-Prism Pentad book, or take place after the changes?

Bram Stoker's Dracula is at its heart, a monster hunt. The monster hunt is one of the oldest tropes in fantasy, remember Beowulf. Dracula is also a supernatural monster, a monster out of fantasy, if you will. Dracula has a fantastic origin, fantastic powers, and a fantastic weakness that must...

You can't just say, "no they're not," and not give a reason. You're of course entitled to your opinion, but your fooling yourself if you think genres are that concrete.

When discussing the difficulty of finding them, yes. When discussing whether or not they are on the shelves, no. You're auto section analogy doesn't work because you wouldn't go looking for fiction in a non-fiction section.

I think you're the one who's incorrect here. A vampire and a man raised by apes are both totally fantasy. Supernatural horror is fantasy as is fantastical adventure, even if lacking in overtly fantastic tropes. It sounds like your definition is based solely by what shelf a book sits on at...

See, guys. WoW is good for the hobby! Seriously, that's good to hear. While I don't think it's wrongbadfun to just romp through modules, kicking down doors, and putting the boot to monsters for their loot, I think that play style misses out on a big chunk of the tabletop game's potential for...

Yeah, I'm totally going to have to disagree with you on this one. In essence, you are saying that reading a book and remembering what you read is more difficult than coming up with your own original characters, regions, nations, religions, and conflicts. Unless you are developing only the most...

What if it's the same two guys who fought through demon grunts #1-8 and then went toe to toe with Orcus. The first guy (fighter) had a slightly easier time of wading through the demon hordes, the second guy (paladin) had a slightly easier time of tanking Orcus. No one is stepping on anyone...

Eh, not really. I think I've been very clear that it would be a slight distinction (if such distinction even exists). It's not like I'm saying the fighter is only good at whack-a-kobold, and the paladin is only good at fighting demons and dragons and such; I'm just saying, a fighter might be...

The DI and Dungeon give them the ability to support any new setting with a complete run of adventures, while not flooding the bookshelves with tons of modules that don't sell very well. Also, I don't see why you think a setting book without adventure support makes your work load greater than...

I'm watching Kill Bill right now (God bless you, IFC), so I'm thinking like this: the fighter does slightly better against the Crazy Eighty-Eight, while the paladin is a little better suited for fighting O'ren. That, I think would be frikking cool.

Because FR apparently is being released as a two book deal, one dealing with fluff, the other with crunch, I would see WotC adapting this approach for any other campaign release, whether or not it's supported by a full line. This way, they could turn a one time $30-40 purchase into a one time...