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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2927465" data-attributes="member: 13892">Fantasy is a broad category, divided further into narrow categories, none of which are obfuscatory, but extremely specific (perhaps too specifc). All that you've done is take one of these narrow categories (Swords & Sorcery) and redefine it to mean the same thing that the broad category of 'fantasy' already means. What's the point? Why not learn the system that's already in place for describing such things? While the genre classification system isn't perfect by any means, doing what your're doing is like the non-gamer usign the term "D&D" to refer to all RPGs. Rather than use existant definitions, you're making up new definitions willy-nilly as you go along. What's worse, you're using already existant words, attributing new and extremely vague definitions to them, and then complaining that other people have no idea what you mean. Of course they have no idea what you mean - you're making up new definitions for words that most of the free world is already familiar with. It's no different than using the word "fork" to refer to a small, blue, fruit that grows in Borneo and then complaining when somebody thinks you're talking about an eating utensil.</blockquote>