The scope of Low Fantasy

I typically interpreted Low Fantasy as a story that takes place in a recognizably fantastic world, but that deals primarily with mundane or "normal people" problems in that world. This separates it better from Historical Fantasy or Urban Fantasy, which is supposed to take place literally in our world, and can include such things as Slow Life Fantasy or "cozy fantasy".

In other words, you don't have a thief who mugs a guy and gets dragged into a plot of warring gods and kings (e.g. Elminster's Daughter), but rather you maybe have an orc who retires from adventuring to open a coffee shop (Legends & Lattes) or a transmigrated/reincarnated corporate drone who just wants to make a decent, stress-free living as an alchemist and mostly sticks to their guns on that (The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent, Slow Life in Another World (I Wish!)).

I agree that we may be best off turning Low Fantasy into a definition-only page that acknowledges that Low Fantasy is at best an umbrella term encompassing several genres, and at worst just a term that gets thrown around with everybody and their second cousin using it differently.

And The Witcher I think does belong primarily in Dark Fantasy, not Low Fantasy.

That was something i said when this thread started, that people conflate Dark Fantasy with Low Fantasy.

The Witcher simply has too many fantastical elements to be Low Fantasy.

Another problem is that some people, for whatever reason, see LF as a badge of honor, in the same (bad) way certain people see things like Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard.

I think we're best off turning LF into a disambiguation page and simply settling on establishing how the term is used in general, outside this wiki. That incorporates two different kinds of use, though, so we'd have to establish the two.

However, this thread has barely budged in the fourish months its been around, so I'm not sure what progress will actually be made.

Yeah, it can have the same "status symbol" view as "Hard Science Fiction" does in SF circles. That doesn't mean either term is entirely bad or meaningless, but you do have to be careful to not just call any Dark Fantasy story you enjoy Low Fantasy.