forum Have you ever read a fantasy that WASN'T an adventure??
Started by @Masterkey
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@cami

hmm, i don't think a court of thorns and roses would be considered an adventure (i'm assuming by adventure you mean characters going off on some sort of mission…quest…thing…like lord of the rings which i have just referenced :P). ummmm…this savage song is sorta urban dragons-and-magic soup and doesn't have an adventure. also for the most part the shades of magic series isn't an adventure.

@Masterkey

Well to me those all have the qualities of an adventure. Google defines adventure as "an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity," so I dunno, I guess a ton of grimoires could be considered an adventure.

It would just be interesting to see a dragons-and-magic soup where it's just slice of life or a heart-squeezy tale.

And as a side note, I really didn't like An Ember in the Ashes, tbh. :/

@Urby

There isn't "dragons-and-magic soup where it's JUST a heart-squeezy tale," because that would just be a heart-squeezy tale set in a dragons-and-magic soup world. Two different beasts.

I would like to see a slice of life dragons-and-magic soup, but I don't think it would get published, since it would lack enough excitement to make it sell beyond niche appeals like ours.

@Masterkey

True true, I guess "dragons-and-magic soup" is kind of equated with "adventure," and so it wouldn't technically be a dragons-and-magic soup if it was just heart-squeezy tale, or just slice of life. People looking for dragons-and-magic soup would be disappointed by it…

@nekh

pretty sure you have slice of life dragons-and-magic soup, but only in manga.
there is such a thing as political dragons-and-magic soup, which is focused more on the inner workings royal courts and all. it's not really adventure dragons-and-magic soup. also stories like dead letter (a prequel to the wizard lizard choir, i think it was called) which are set in one location but have a lot going on aren't adventures. i personally make a distinction between high and epic dragons-and-magic soup. high dragons-and-magic soup is the usual definition, stories in a made up world with magic and stuff. epic fantasies are those stories like a daughter of smoke and calcium bodystick or lord of the rings that have a plot of epic proportions, with much higher stakes, and almost always involve some kind of journey.

basically you want high or low dragons-and-magic soup that isn't epic dragons-and-magic soup.

Purplehurricane

Well, does Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire count then? Its less of an adventure and more a struggle for survival. People do go places but it's not the drive of the plot.