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'''Heroic Fantasy''' is one of the various [[Setting Aesthetics]] you see in... well, pretty much everywhere you look for fantasy media, especially on /tg/. Sharing basic roots with [[Sword & Sorcery]], Heroic Fantasy is generally thought of as the middle point between [[High Fantasy]] and [[Low Fantasy]]; the world is big and stable, not directly caught up in a battle between good and evil (or order vs. chaos), but also magical and strange. Generally speaking, it's a world that focuses on the individual stories of a given [[adventurer]], or party thereof, whilst making it clear that their story is not the ''only'' story going on in the world.

'''Wuxia''' is the [[Oriental Adventures]] equivalent of Heroic Fantasy.

[[Dungeons & Dragons]] is generally considered to default towards Heroic Fantasy, although this depends a ''lot'' on both edition and setting - in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Greyhawk]] is more [[Sword & Sorcery]] and the [[Forgotten Realms]] are more Heroic Fantasy, whilst 4th edition defaulted to this genre and emphasized it with its [[Nentir Vale]] core setting.

[[Warhammer Fantasy]] is a weird blending point of Heroic, High, Low and [[Dark Fantasy]]. Whilst mostly associated with Dark Low Fantasy in the form of the actual [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]], the setting itself is more Dark Heroic to High Fantasy in the lore. The [[Gotrek & Felix]] novels are unabashedly Dark Heroic Fantasy, with the emphasis on the Heroic, which is one of the reasons why they are either loved or hated.

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