I thought the list might find this amusing. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~imcfadyen/notthenet/fantasy.htm Sample: 5. Create the Land The first thing the Motley Bunch must do is travel some phenomenal distance through an assortment of vastly different terrains and climates. All Fantasy Lands have every conceivable form of climate and landform - mountains, deserts, swamps, glaciers, forests - arranged randomly across the landscape contrary to any known principles of geography or ecology. Note: All fantasy worlds are roughly square. i.e. the shape of the double page of a paperback.