: Re: Describing a sport in a fantasy setting In one scene in my YA fantasy my characters are at a party on a beach. One piece of the setting is a group of teenagers playing a game, which my

The other option is to go the Calvinball route (the sport played by Calvin and Hobbs in the comic series of the same name. The one consistent rule was "Never use the same rule set twice)... describe the actions, but the rules are never constantly apparent to the reader. You can allude to great players and maneuvers and they are so inconsistent as to give the reader no understanding other than "it's a sport". Consider the type of people who read fantasy stories: Most really aren't sports fanatics and to many, discussing the real rules of a real world sport make as much sense as the current ruleset of Calvinball.

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