Sword and sorcery (S&S), or heroic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures...
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The following is a list of sword-and-sorcery films. These tend to focus on single heroes, romance, and magic. Die Nibelungen (1924) The Iron Crown (1941)...
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Sword and Sorcery Studios (S&SS) was an imprint of White Wolf, Inc., used to publish its d20 System & Open Gaming License material in from 2000 to 2008...
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Sword of Sorcery was an American sword-and-sorcery comics anthology featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, heroes and rogues created by Fritz Leiber. Published...
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Robert E. Howard (section Sword and sorcery)
the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard was born and raised in Texas. He spent most of...
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genre, mythic fantasy, dark fantasy, and wuxia. It typically is not considered to include the sword and sorcery genre. High fantasy is typically set in...
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Swords and Sorcery is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by L. Sprague de Camp and illustrated by Virgil...
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noted that The Broken Sword influenced later writers of sword and sorcery fiction, including Moorcock, Karl Edward Wagner, and Richard K. Morgan. The...
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fantasy and sword and sorcery.[according to whom?] Both categories typically employ quasi-medieval settings, wizards, magical creatures and other elements...
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female protagonists in the subgenre of sword and sorcery. At the time, most female characters in sword and sorcery were little more than stock damsels in...
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Planetary romance (redirect from Sword and planet)
"sword and planet", sometimes referred to as "planetary romance," fantasy, is [...] Jones, Howard Andrews; Rhodes, Robert (2008). "Sword and Sorcery Fiction"...
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History of fantasy (redirect from Tolkien and the history of fantasy)
distinct and viable. Today, fantasy encompasses many subgenres, including traditional high fantasy, sword and sorcery, fairytale fantasy, and dark fantasy...
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Milton Subotsky (redirect from Sword and Sorcery Productions)
Film Studios and Industry Bodies > Amicus Productions". screenonline.org.uk. Nathan, Paul S (1976). "Rights and Permissions: Sword and Sorcery". Publishers...
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The Warlord is a sword and sorcery character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer-artist Mike Grell, he debuted...
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The Sword of Truth is a series of 21 sword and sorcery novels and six novellas written by Terry Goodkind. The books follow the protagonists Richard Cypher...
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The Sword and the Sorcerer is a 1982 American sword and sorcery fantasy film co-written and directed by Albert Pyun, and starring Lee Horsley, Kathleen...
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also refer to these: Swords and Sorcery, a 1963 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre Sword of Sorcery, a 1978 comics anthology...
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Conan the Barbarian (section Personality and character)
Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero created by American author Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) and who debuted in 1932 and went on to appear in a...
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Red Sonja (1985 film), an American sword and sorcery film Red Sonja (2025 film), an upcoming American sword and sorcery film Red Sonja: Consumed, a 2024...
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List of Mushoku Tensei characters (category Lists of anime and manga characters)
Mushoku Tensei features a sword and sorcery-esque vast world with an extensive cast of characters. The series is about an unnamed Japanese NEET who reincarnates...
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Fantasy trope (redirect from Fantasy tropes and conventions)
conflict as a plot device, and often do not distinguish the sides by their behavior. In some works, most notably in sword and sorcery, evil is not opposed by...
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Hobgoblin (comics) (section Sword-and-sorcery)
was one of several supervillains who was transformed into a sword-and-sorcery version of themselves due to the spell cast by Kulan Gath. It was never...
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a fairly traditional sword-and-sorcery book at the time in Claw the Unconquered, and I also had no desire to [copy] Red Sonja and simply put new names...
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The Black Sword Hack is dark fantasy / sword and sorcery themed tabletop roleplaying game developed by Alexandre "Kobayashi" Jeannette. The game mechanics...
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Swords & Sorcery, subtitled "Quest and Conquest in the Age of Magic", is a fantasy-themed board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI)...
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Xianxia (section Films and television)
materializing objects and force fields, manipulation of energy and the elements, etc., akin to other high fantasy genres such as the sword and sorcery Western literatures...
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The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Distribution. It is...
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Terry Goodkind (section The Sword of Truth)
Look". IGN. Retrieved 2008-11-07. Barnes, B (October 26, 2008). "Swords and Sorcery Return to Syndication". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-04-30....
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technology (historical fantasy and science fantasy both overlap with this genre) Sword and sorcery, adventures of sword-wielding heroes, generally more...
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Elric of Melniboné (category Sword and sorcery)
Michael Moorcock and the protagonist of a series of sword and sorcery stories taking place on an alternative Earth. The proper name and title of the character...
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