Idea for the origin of elves, dwarves, goblins, trolls etc. in Dungeon Fantasy

[trooper6]

Originally Posted by b-dog

Sure, that is what people at Steve Jackson games think about DF but they are not any authority, they are a small company with a rules system I like. Dungeons and Dragons had people spending hours in their fantasy world (along with their money) so they must have created a gameworld that people thought highly of.

Or that have lots of players who enjoy killing things and not thinking too heavily about the background detail. Who aren't worried about crafting or economies or why there are goblins in a dungeon that has been sealed up for 100 years. That has been my majority experience with D&D. Sure that have been DM's that have done extra work. But most wanted just to go killing things and didn't worry too much about the details. It was fiendish traps and skeletons and loot. It was all dwarves having Scottish accents and drinking Ale and hating Elves. And all elves being a bit haughty and thin and lithe and vaguely British. It was characters with absolutely no backstory.

Can you do other stuff? Sure. But it seems the phrase "Dungeon Fantasy" is being used to describe that...and it seems that there is a distinction being made between Dungeon Fantasy, and Fantsy that has dungeons in it.