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Fantasy wrestling's roots lie in the play-by-mail wrestling games often featured in professional wrestling magazines that became prominent in the mid-to-late 1980s during one of professional wrestling's boom periods.

Fantasy wrestling underwent a paradigm shift in the early 1990s as the game moved from play-by-mail to nationwide message boards based on PRODIGY, AOL and Compuserve.

Fantasy wrestling continues to evolve.

Fantasy wrestling leagues ( e-feds ) operate using a number of different settings and systems to determine results.

On September 20, 2008, Finochio made a one-night return to wrestling under her old Stephanie Starr ring name, where she lost a three-way match to Peggy Lee Leather that also involved Fantasy.

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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 ".

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

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 ).

It first aired Sunday, December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network in the United States, and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of The General Electric Fantasy Hour.

Gary K. Wolfe, professor of humanities and English at Roosevelt University, identifies the introduction of the term New Wave to SF as occurring in 1966 in an essay for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction written by Judith Merril, who was indirectly yet it seems unambiguously referring to that term in order to comment on the experimental fiction that had begun to appear in the English magazine New Worlds, after Michael Moorcock assumed editorship in 1964.

The term " Microcomputer " came into popular use after the introduction of the minicomputer, although Isaac Asimov used the term microcomputer in his short story " The Dying Night " as early as 1956 ( published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in July that year ).

In a more general sense, the term " piano concerto " could extend to the numerous often programmatic concerted works for piano and orchestra from the era – Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Liszt's Totentanz and Ruins of Athens Variations, and Richard Strauss's Burleske are only a few of the hundreds of such works.

Magic in Crystal Chronicles comes in the form of " magicite " ( a term first used in Final Fantasy VI and later used in Final Fantasy XII and other titles set in the world of Ivalice ( as part of the Ivalice Alliance )) and encompasses only a few basic offensive and defensive spells, with the majority of the spells in the game accessible by combining two or more basic spells.

This term was subsequently used retrospectively for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons books such as The Complete Book of Dwarves and Complete Arcane, or the numerous Codices for Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40, 000.

The term is used differently in the English release of Square Co. Super Nintendo role-playing video game Final Fantasy VI ( released as Final Fantasy III in North America ), in which beings called " Espers " are essentially demigods who wield magical abilities, and can be killed to allow these abilities to be transferred to humans.

Splatterpunk — a term coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island — refers to a movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence and " hyperintensive horror with no limits.

Classical Fantasy is a term used to describe fantasy based on the Greek and Roman

Kaja Foglio coined the term " Gaslamp Fantasy " ( an alternative to steampunk ) to describe the work.

The terms and " Spirit Energy " was often used interchangeably, as one is derivative of the other, but by the time of Final Fantasy VII, the use of the term " Spirit Energy " is widely opposed, due to its negative connotation.

In the fictional Warhammer Fantasy setting and Warhammer Fantasy Battle tabletop wargame, Dogs of War is a collective term for various mercenary groups.

The term was first used in print by science fiction critic Donald G. Keller in an article, The Manner of Fantasy, in the April, 1991 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction, although author Ellen Kushner has said that she suggested the term to Keller.

", which first appeared in The Los Angeles Times in the late 1980s and was reprinted in his 1991 book Frontiers ; the term was later revisited in his essay, " The Incredible Shrinking Planet " which appeared first in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and then in the anthology The relativity of wrong ( 1988 ).