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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1539099" data-attributes="member: 2205">Yeah, sure.&nbsp; I don't know that Magic and Pokemon are defining the change, though.&nbsp; Rather, it's novels that sell really well like Wheel of Time or Harry Potter or movies that do really well like Lord of the Rings or T.V shows like Alias or Buffy, that while not traditional, are certainly fantastic, that are more likely to change the genre.As Umbran said, though, how can a genre not change that's been around as long as it has?&nbsp; If nothing else, a puncuated equilibrium style of evolution would occur -- fantasy would settle into routines that would sporadically be shaken up by some writer with a new idea that would redefine the genre.&nbsp; However, I believe that the fantasy genre has become big enough that rather than sporadic changes, someone's writing that redefining book literally all the time.However, if fantasy means simply D&amp;D and D&amp;D novels to you, then yeah, I can see how you'd think fantasy was changing.&nbsp; I guess that's the rub; does Dragon refer to fantasy as a literary genre, or fantasy as a RPG genre?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1539099, member: 2205"] Yeah, sure. I don't know that Magic and Pokemon are defining the change, though. Rather, it's novels that sell really well like [i]Wheel of Time[/i] or [i]Harry Potter[/i] or movies that do really well like [i]Lord of the Rings[/i] or T.V shows like [i]Alias[/i] or [i]Buffy[/i], that while not traditional, are certainly fantastic, that are more likely to change the genre. As Umbran said, though, how can a genre not change that's been around as long as it has? If nothing else, a puncuated equilibrium style of evolution would occur -- fantasy would settle into routines that would sporadically be shaken up by some writer with a new idea that would redefine the genre. However, I believe that the fantasy genre has become big enough that rather than sporadic changes, someone's writing that redefining book [i]literally all the time.[/i] However, if fantasy means simply D&D and D&D novels to you, then yeah, I can see how you'd think fantasy was changing. I guess that's the rub; does Dragon refer to fantasy as a literary genre, or fantasy as a RPG genre? [/QUOTE]

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