What is a Fantasy Role-playing Game (FRPG)?
Fantasy role-playing games (FRPGs) are RPGs set in a fantasy world. The classical high fantasy generally assumes the reality of three concepts: polytheism, magic, and an assortment of intelligent species interacting with humans. It is interesting that attacks on RPG’s accuse the games of promoting a belief in the first two, but never accuse it of promoting a belief in dragons and centaurs. Yet, lacking any supporting evidence (which has not been found), if it promotes one of these ideas as real, it must promote all–or far more logically, it promotes none. This type of fantasy is the setting such as you might encounter in the works of J. R. R. Tolkein (The Lord of the Rings), C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia), the various Conan books, and so on. Fantasy settings are inspired by Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic, and other European mythology, Arthurian legend, and epic stories such as Beowulf and Gilgamesh, and may involve encounters with elves, dwarves, gnomes, giants, dragons, griffons
