Glorantha is the Fantasy world created by Greg Stafford and since used as the background for several role-playing games, including RuneQuest ( 1st ed.

This edition both loosened the connection between RuneQuest and Glorantha, introducing ' Fantasy Europe ' as the principal game world for Rune Quest, and much broadened the scope of Glorantha, which was treated as an alternative game world.

* Marienburg ( Warhammer ), a fictional city in the Warhammer Fantasy world

* Titan ( world ), the Fighting Fantasy Game Books world that was created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone

Fantasy and science fiction subjects are sometimes not considered wargames because there is nothing in the real world to model, however, conflict in a self-consistent fictional world lends itself to exactly the same types of games and game designs as does military history.

The majority of the Fighting Fantasy titles are set in the fictional and medieval world of Titan, which consists of three giant continents.

In Final Fantasy IX, the player navigates a character throughout the game world, exploring areas and interacting with non-player characters.

Players journey between field screen locations on the world map, a three dimensional, downsized representation of Final Fantasy IXs world presented from a top-down perspective.

Like previous Final Fantasy installments, travel across the world map screen and hostile field screen locations is interrupted by random enemy encounters.

* Cocoon, a fictional world in the video game Final Fantasy XIII

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The fifth-largest board game publisher in the world, Fantasy Flight Games, is based in Roseville.

2001 saw the first attempt to create a fully animated world using photorealistic human actors in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which met with moderate critical success but did not do well at the box office.

It removed many characters from the Second Edition and added new ones which tied the world of Talisman more closely to the Warhammer Fantasy settings games.

Fantasy has long borrowed the idea of " another world " from myth, legend and religion.

Fantasy authors often want to bring characters from the author's ( and the reader's ) reality into their created world.

Fantasy worlds created through a process called world building are known as a constructed world.

With the advent of the 3rd edition, Blood Bowl moved closer to the traditional Warhammer Fantasy Battle world by changing the miniatures to look more similar to their Warhammer Fantasy Battle counterparts.

Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).

* A common two-headed wyvern enemy in Final Fantasy XIII is named Amphisbaena.

As in the Ninth Symphony, the vocal forces sing a theme first played instrumentally, and this theme is highly reminiscent of the corresponding theme in the Ninth Symphony ( for a detailed comparison, see Choral Fantasy ).

Going further back, an earlier version of the Choral Fantasy theme is found in the song " Gegenliebe " (" Returned Love "), for piano and high voice, which dates from before 1795.

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

A second edition of Bunnies & Burrows was printed in 1982 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, although the continuing popularity of the first edition is evidenced by how it was still being actively played in 2008.

Call of Cthulhu, the Living Card Game is a second collectible card game ; currently it is produced by Fantasy Flight Games.

* Cyan Garamonde is a named character in Final Fantasy VI.

* The character of Dr. Hesselius is featured in a Mutual Broadcasting Network radio drama entitled " The Shadow People ", an episode from The Hall of Fantasy series ( 1946 – 1947, 1949 – 1952, 1952, 1953 ).

The term " Low Fantasy " is used to represent other types of fantasy, however, so while comic fantasies may also correctly be classified as low fantasy, many examples of low fantasy are not comic in nature.

Daedalus is the name of a boss that protects Giruvegan in the game Final Fantasy XII.

He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, sometimes within the same novel: a typical example of Simmons ' ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali ( 1985 ), winner of World Fantasy Award.

Fantasy Sports is estimated to have a $ 3 –$ 4 Billion annual economic impact across the sports industry.

Fantasy sports are considered gambling and therefore illegal if the competition does not meet this rule: " prizes and awards offered to winning participants are established and made known to the participants in advance of the game or contest and their value is not determined by the number of participants or the amount of any fees paid by those participants.

Fantasy in a psychological sense is broadly used to cover two different senses, conscious and unconscious.

Fantasy, when pushed to the extreme, is a common trait of narcissistic personality disorder ; and certainly ' Vaillant found that not one person who used fantasy a lot had any close friends '.

Fantasy Games Unlimited, often referred to as just FGU, is a publishing house for both table-top and role-playing games.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

Fantasy author Philip Pullman echoes this idea in the fantasy series His Dark Materials, in which the characters finally come to the conclusion that people should make life better on Earth rather than wait for heaven ( this idea is known as the Republic of Heaven ).

It is used as the underlying mechanics of other Hero Games role-playing games such as Dark Champions, Fantasy Hero, Star Hero, and Pulp Hero.

One spin-off of a now-defunct Nomic ( Nomic World ) is the Fantasy Rules Committee, which adds every legal rule submitted by a player to the ruleset until the players run out of ideas, after which all the " fantasy rules " are repealed and the game begins again.

Fantasy is closely associated with science fiction, and many writers have worked in both genres, while writers such as Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Marion Zimmer Bradley have written works that appear to blur the boundary between the two related genres.

The authors ' professional organization is called the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ).