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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 5872148" data-attributes="member: 5948">Indeed.RPG settings are almost a fantasy genre of their own.  RPG worlds have very little in common with worlds created for the purpose of fantasy literature once you get past the superficialities of bearded axewielding dwarves, wizards who wear robes, etc etc.Stuff that is common in RPGs (and may be in RPG tie-in novels) but rare in other fantasy fiction:Resurrection (though for some reason bad guys rarely use it)Routine availability of minor magicDivision of magic into arcane and divineCommon occurence of minor magic itemsA very large multiplicity of intelligent species (most novels stick to humans, dwarf-type, elf-types, orc-types, plus maybe dragons and demons - you won't often see the zillions of araneas, jackalweres, kobolds, shadar-kai, thri-kreen, vegepygmies, sphinxes, formians and so forth that show up in an RPG setting)Stuff that is rare in RPGs but found more often in fiction:Genuinely rigid class/social structuresOrganised law/government with the power to enforce its willMagic with inherent major riskMaiming/crippling that lastsMonotheism (though fantasy-novel monotheist churches tend to be run by evil venal types who are oppressing some sort of celtic rip-off nature-faith)</blockquote>