WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting

[doctorbadwolf]

For the life of me I can't understand why you are still trying to define Ravnica as Urban Fantasy when it is pretty clear Urban Fantasy is Buffy and Anita Blake and Dresden and The Dark Tower etc...

Because it is.

 

[bedir than]

A new setting would just end up looking like the Radiant Citadel and who wants more of that???

I'd absolutely love more Radiant Citadel, but that's also not a new setting that I expect WotC to explore (Romantasy, Urban Fantasy, Born-to-power)

 

[Older Beholder]

But, when I googled Urban Fantasy, I got this...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

For the life of me I can't understand why you are still trying to define Ravnica as Urban Fantasy when it is pretty clear Urban Fantasy is Buffy and Anita Blake and Dresden and The Dark Tower etc...

The Ravnica novel I read was definitely urban fantasy/police procedural.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

A couple minutes ago, a friend and fellow D&D player of mine linked me to this article:

Introducing the Urban Fantasy Gazetteer

Click through for an interactive map of contemporary fantasy by state at One of the pleasures of reading contemporary or urban fantasy, as opposed to epic fantasy, is the fact that it is set in ou…

www.genrify.com

The first two paragraphs of this article talk about what makes Urban Fantasy so appealing to some people. The rest of the article mentions which state each Urban Fantasy series took place in.

So you are redefining urban fantasy as “must be set in the US” now?!

The Nightingale would like a word.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

So you are redefining urban fantasy as “must be set in the US” now?!

The Nightingale would like a word.

from the second paragraph:

I didn’t do any international urban fantasies (I’ll do those in a future post)

 

[MichaelSomething]

Let me show you a good example of Urban Fantasy...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Buffy

I would just like to point out that Sunnydale is not a real place, in the US or anywhere else. Nor is it a city. In fact, I would describe it as decidedly suburban fantasy (along with Stephen King and a bunch of other stuff).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Let me show you a good example of Urban Fantasy...

I mean, yo could easily describe K-Pop Demon Hunters as Urban Fantasy if you like. Or The Exorcist. As with any attempt to define a genre, the more tightly you try to define it, the more it slips through your fingers, excluding things you feel certain should be in, and including things you feel sure don't belong.


My feeling is that the zeitgeist of Urban Fantasy is a mash up of D&D style fantasy with crime fiction. The important thing about Harry Dresden is not that he lives in Chicago, the important thing is his job is Private Investigator.