Low Fantasy RPG?

[Mantriel]

Does "for me" indicate that the definition is yours, or is it more official? Because I thought that fiction about worlds based off the real world was just called "fiction." "Fantasy" is a different beast.

You have a good point there...
I know that Lovecraft's work is sometimes called science fiction, but in my book it is clearly horror and has nothing to do with science fiction.
Jules Verne was called Science Fiction (and in my book still is), but nowadays his books are called steampunk.
Historical fiction (like the three musketeers from Dumas) is historical fiction (duh).
Howard's Conan (or Cook's the Black Company) is... well Low fantasy gory/gritty style, with monsters and magic etc.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is high fantasy for me (elves, dwarves, mages, magic, orks, dragons, balrogs, etc.) The definition of high fantasy is epicness anyway
http://rpggeek.com/rpggenre/155/fantasy-high-fantasy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fantasy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_fantasy_fiction

(I know, it's wikipedia, and I shouldn't believe everything I read there).

There are a couple of "Low fantasy" books, which would qualify in all aspects as historical fiction,... but they are not placed on earth. For me they are "the low fantasy books", I could name quite a few, but I'm quite certain you haven't read any of them (they weren't published in English).
I guess you could still call them fiction? But English is my third language anyway, I have no idea about these kinds of nuances... Sorry.

Check the definition of low fantasy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_fantasy

 

[gamerprinter]

Does anybody recall the Gor book series. Except that the protagonist is really from Earth and is somehow teleported to the world of Gor, everything about Gor is very much low fantasy, with magic turned up to 3 (at best). Not saying it had the best view on women's issues and it was big time using the slaves trope (even sex slaves) - so not the best representations of society, but the series was definitely low fantasy.

 

[TrippyHippy]

Does "for me" indicate that the definition is yours, or is it more official? Because I thought that fictij on about worlds based off the real world was just called "fiction." "Fantasy" is a different beast.

Hrrrrpmp! 'Low fantasy' is fantasy set in a 'real world' setting. That is all.

 

[Yora]

In the end, it doesn't matter which use of the term would be correct or most appropriate. Simply by being used by lots of people in completely different ways makes it useless. It doesn't mean anything anymore.