![]() I’ve heard people at my local game shop talk about it, saying that it was great, or maybe terrible, or maybe something in between. I recently committed to read the first book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. It’s not fair to say that all fantasy is this way, and I know that, but I’ve never been able to get into it. But all that detail, delivered in painstaking monologues and narrator asides, wore me out. How do you describe a world that doesn’t exist? You explain it until you can’t anymore. Part of this is the world-building aspect of the genre. Stylistically, fantasy has always seemed expansive, pages and pages of descriptions. I tried some authors recommended to me, but most of it-even YA fantasy, which aims to break the mold of the genre-carried the vestiges of Tolkien. As an adult, newly interested in tabletop RPG games, I thought maybe I should read some fantasy in order to get in the mindset of the games I loved. Growing up and attempting the endeavor that is Lord of the Rings, I always found the genre sexist, racist, and overall, well.boring. ![]() I frequently inhabit fantasy worlds and write stories that take place within them, but I don’t read fantasy novels. I play two Dungeons & Dragons games a week and act as a dungeon master, too. I hate fantasy novels, and the genre as a whole.
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