Dungeon Fantasy: Good or Bad for GURPS?

[Captain-Captain]

Originally Posted by Johnny Angel

Forgive me for being the new guy and asking, but what's the difference between Dungeon Fantasy and Fantasy? I'm not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth, and I'm all for having more fantasy options, but I'm not quite sure what relationship DF has to Fantasy.

DF is specifically oriented towards over the top stereotypical Fantasy roleplaying of the sort found in the late 1970s. There is no particular need for reality, explanations of how monsters got into that room, what they live on etc.

To use the example cited above, while Abydos can be made into a DF setting fairly eay by making the people of the ilsnad balackheareted demon worshippin thugs, it can be considerably more sophisticated, where legitimate moral interpretations distinguish undeath from demonic, where the economics of a society that uses zombie labor come into play. Where political and trade intrigues between Abydos and the Empire are concieved and executed.

In DF AlL of that is irrelevant. Just be sure the elf chick in the platemail G-string shows off her legs when she poses over that dragon she whupped.