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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galloglaich" data-source="post: 4489580" data-attributes="member: 77019">I think people have really, really lost track of how fantastical the 'mundane' can actually be.  A fight with a bear could be very exciting IMO.  I remember the first time I read Lord of the rings, how terrific the battle with a few orcs and and ogre was in the Mines of Moria.  To me that was the archetypal dungeon adventure.  And yet today that wouldn't rate as anything but a minor encounter to snag a few XP.I think about the classic fantasy books I read like the original conan, fafhred and gray mouser, cugel the clever, they were actually very grounded in history and mythology.  They were essentially low fantasy books in which the magic stood out vividly against a background something like a hard bitten detective novel, realistic and gritty.  Like somebody else said, when dinner is cake and icecream desert just doesn't seem as special. I believe the general escalation of fantastic themes into the hyper realm, though it works for some people and can probably be done well, to me represents a failure of the imagination.</blockquote>