Sword and sorcery (S&S), or heroic fantasy, is a genre of literature characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures...
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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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of film media, including TV-Shows and Shorts, containing strong elements or influences from the sword-and-sorcery genre. The Archer (TV film) (1982)...
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Ravenloft is a 2001 role-playing game supplement published by Sword and Sorcery Studios. Ravenloft is a supplement in which the Ravenloft campaign setting...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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barbarian, and the tale does not have the thrills and excitement of typical sword and sorcery. Sacnoth is the first sentient sword in fantasy fiction, and an...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Adventures of Conan: A Sword and Sorcery Spectacular was an attraction at American theme park Universal Studios Hollywood that ran from 1983 to 1993...
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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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actress and fashion model. During the 1980s, she rose to prominence in several sword-and-sorcery films. In 2003, record producer Phil Spector shot and killed...
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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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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 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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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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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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Red Sonja (1985 film) (category American sword and sorcery films)
Red Sonja is a 1985 American sword-and-sorcery epic film directed by Richard Fleischer, and written by Clive Exton and George MacDonald Fraser. It is...
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