07-26-2015, 03:40 PM | #31 |
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Re: Do you have a favorite TL?
I can live with that.
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07-26-2015, 03:45 PM | #32 | ||||
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While Brother Cadfael may be doing autopsies at an improbably advanced level, he is not in fact a professional detective, that professional detectives don't exist. He isn't working with a police force, that police forces don't exist. Nobody is going to be read their rights, that their rights don't exist. Except for right of clergy which is weird enough in itself. At the moment he's solving the case the realm is in the middle of a civil war over whether a woman can inherit the throne. Wearing a leper's rags grants instant anonymity. And all the other myriad things that are so very different. Quote:
But it's still not urban fantasy just because it's in a city. The genre-defining Fafhrd and Grey Mouser took place in the city of Lankhmar but the genre it named was swords and sorcery, not urban fantasy. While there's a bit of flex as to what qualifies as "modern", the definition of "urban fantasy" includes "modern". Nothing that doesn't have the internal combustion engine is "urban fantasy". Or as close to nothing as you can get. Last edited by David Johnston2; 07-26-2015 at 03:50 PM. |
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07-26-2015, 03:52 PM | #33 | |||
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Some day some one will write a Caveman Police Procedural and your definitions will go all sideways.
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07-26-2015, 03:58 PM | #34 | |||
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07-26-2015, 04:00 PM | #35 | |
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Some other sci-fi that is more western than sci-fi includes "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr." and "Wild Wild West" (the TV show; the movie is very much sci-fi with western veneer). Edit: I am defining Sci-fi as the group of stories that examine societal implications of advances in science or technology. A historical fiction tale involving Leonardo Davinci's work would qualify. Last edited by Culture20; 07-26-2015 at 04:12 PM. |
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07-26-2015, 07:12 PM | #36 |
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Re: Do you have a favorite TL?
TLs where my character can shoot or blow up his enemies rather than having to reply on muscle power to hurt'em.
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07-26-2015, 07:39 PM | #37 |
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Re: Do you have a favorite TL?
Current favorites are: 10-11^, 4+magic, and 6 (from Billy the Kid to Indiana Jones). 8/early-9^ is also up there, depending on genre.
Really, some genres are tied to their TL tighter than others. Space Opera insists on 10+, fantasy on 1-4, and westerns and cliffhangers are in the 5-6 range. Supers and Monster Hunters run the gamut.
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07-26-2015, 07:45 PM | #38 | |||
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I'll grant that the internet agrees with you. However to me the only real difference between The Garrett Files and (the early) Dresden Files is this: Garrett doesn't use magic, and none of Dresden's primary sidekicks are elves. Other wise they are both classic examples of noir detective genre... however because Dresden is a mage it gets classified as 'urban fantasy'. See also the oldest urban fantasy I could find (which has no cars as I can recall): Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
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07-26-2015, 08:05 PM | #39 |
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Kinda. Ish.
I'm not sure I'd call Poul Anderson's The High Crusade a 'TL 10+ game'. The protagonists (thus the PCs) are all TL4, they just happen to get lucky and capture a space ship.... and then suborn the remaining survivor of it's crew to pilot them into space and onto crusading and bringing Medieval Christianity to the stars. They do not gain in any true measure of TL as I recall. |
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