RE: Hero Wars scale, can you do Pavis?

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From: Hibbs, Philip <philip.hibbs_at_tnt.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:35:56 +0100

>One of the things that I always loved about RQ2 was how
>"low-fantasy" Pavis was, somewhat similar to Fafhrd & The
>Gray Mouser or the Thieve's World series.

Don't you mean "high-fantasy"? Wizards and heroes are "low-fantasy", complex cultures and little peoples' individual lives are "high-fantasy". The terms are defined by literary critics, so they picked the complimentary-sounding term for the high-brow stuff.

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