Sometimes, fantasy worlds can be useful in role playing... especially if you play with multiple universe games like Rifts or WoD or nWoD... in WoD, Arcadia is suppossed to be made up of realms created by human dreams... In Beyond the Supernatural's Nightbane, Beyond the Supernatural, and Rifts, Rifts can lead to anywhere, at any time in any world in the megaverse... and Dreams can actually be worlds in the astral and dream realms. Some of the Nightbane supplements actually have character classes that go in depth about gaming possibilities in dream realms and masters of those realms... sort of like Freddy Krueger was in Nightmare on Elmstreet, but able to be taken in all sorts of different directions...
what more unified human dreams could there be than fantasy worlds like those found in Star Wars, Piers Anthony Xanth and Adept Series Books, JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth described in the Hobbit, Wonderland from Alice in Wonderland, the Wizard of Oz, Narnia in CS Lewis's The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, the land in Grimm's Fairy Tales, or just about any made up realm or world from any work of fiction ever created in the history of mankind.
Here's some more wikipedia links for you. I use wikipedia a lot as it's an amazing reference source for this sort of stuff:
What's nice about megaversal type rpgs is that you don't have to always play in one location, one one world, or even on one dimension! You can draw inspirations for your gameplay from myths, history, legends, fantasy, or just about anything else. You probably do want a consistant mood in your games.. no need to have your James Bond Characters always trying to outwit one of the Wicked Witches in Oz as she is about to set up a plan do destroy the yellow brick road, but what's neat about it is that if you want, you could do just that!
Role Playing is about character development. Just as you and I daydream on occassion, our characters in rpgs may actually enter in their own daydreams and you can play them out if you need or want to... Studying real world history, fantasy, psychology, and many other things can give you gaming inspiration... even reading the local newspaper can... there are stories all around us. Use them! :)
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