Please add "Natural Fantasy" into the Genre List for Campaign Worlds

Hi, I want to build campaign worlds inspired by Studio Ghibli stories like Nausicaä, Princess Mononoke or Howls moving Castle.

Natural Fantasy is a term for a specific kind of fantasy setting, it stands on its own two feet and has big differences to normal fantasy or high and low fantasy settings. Atm Frannz treats Natural Fantasy as normal fantasy and as such disregards and reverts a lot of what Natural Fantasy is about:

Tales of natural fantasy evolve around warmth and community, harmony with nature and beasts, with a sudden natural disturbance or catastrophe that befalls the hearts of the people and the well being of the environement they live in. They twist and corrupt and the heroes or protagonist must find a way to heal or mend their people, their home and land and must confront those who stir sentiments of hatred and mistrust . Because it is a type of fantasy deeply rooted in the spiritual belief system of Japan and japanese culture, it blends fairy tales with things like spirits, respect for natural ressources, selfgrowth, selfworth and learning how to navigate setbacks and negative human emotions. The antagonists are oftentimes disastrous calamities or ancient and powerful monsters. If the antagonist is a humanoid being, they are often misguided in their belief what may be good for their community and they learn to see reason through the story.

At the moment the genre “Natural Fantasy” is missing from the Genre Tab for a campaign and Franz does not grasp the concept of what Natural Fantasy is all about, even if I explain it to him and give him custom instructions. He always ends up treating it like normal fantasy and goes ham with his obsession for dark magic, forgetting the spiritual and phylosophical aspects and contexts and deeper meaning.

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Over 1 year ago

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Shinrai

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