# What does fantasy do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-fantasy-do/1027648 "2026-02-13T20:50:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 97
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-fantasy-do/1027648/97 "2026-02-15T18:02:43Z")
I did not know you’d done some workups as an author. makes sense with the rest of your skills and personality, but if you’d mentioned that before I’d not noticed it. Ref this: > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > wound up setting it aside, but I may come back to it at some point. (Or, it might well wind up becomimg a setting for a tabletop RPG campaign.) So sorta the opposite of this current thread: > [@Knights of Balmarrow: Advice on writing a book](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-balmarrow-advice-on-writing-a-book/1027615): > > I am working on co-writing and self-publishing a series of novels entitled Knights of Balmarrow, a series based in a fantasy world of swords, multiple races, and magic. It’s based on an RP that myself and a guy named Sean Fotis have been working on for the past 2 1/2 years on Discord. We already have enough material to cover several books. We’d been writing this in our spare time, for fun, but my new medication has given me confidence and motivation I’ve never experienced before, and made me r… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-fantasy-do/1027648)._