The Mighty Barbarians: Great Sword and Sorcery Heroes is a 1969 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Hans Stefan Santesson.
 It was first published in paperback by Lancer Books in 1969, and was later followed up by the subsequent Lancer anthology "The Mighty Swordsmen".
Imaro is a sword and sorcery novel written by Charles R. Saunders, and published by DAW Books in 1981.
 It may have been one of the first forays into the sword and sorcery genre by a black author.
 The novel is a collection of six short stories ("Mawanzo", "Turkhana Knives", "The Place of Stones", "Slaves of the Giant Kings", "Horror in the Black Hills", and "The City of Madness") which were originally published in "Dark Fantasy", a fanzine published by Canadian comic book artist Gene Day during the 1970s.
The "Sword and Sorceress" series is a series of fantasy anthologies originally edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and originally published by DAW Books.
 As she explained in the foreword to the first volume, she created the anthology to redress the lack of strong female protagonists in the subgenre of sword and sorcery.
 At the time, most female characters in sword and sorcery were little more than stock damsels in distress, or pawns who were distributed at the conclusion of the story as "bad-conduct prizes" (Bradley's term) for the male protagonists.
 Many of the early sword-and-sorcery works featured attitudes toward women that Bradley considered appalling.
The Fantastic Swordsmen is a 1967 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by American writer L. Sprague de Camp.
 It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books.
 It was the third such anthology assembled by de Camp, following his earlier "Swords and Sorcery" (1963) and "The Spell of Seven" (1965).
 It has also been translated into German.
"The Gem in the Tower" is a short story by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard.
 It is a rewritten version of "Black Moonlight", an earlier story by Carter alone featuring his own sword and sorcery character Thongor (for which see below).
 The Conan version was first published by Bantam Books in the paperback collection "Conan the Swordsman" in August 1978, and was reprinted in the anthology "" (DAW Books, 1980) and later editions of "Conan the Swordsman" (Ace Books, 1987 and 1991, Tor Books (first hardcover edition), 2002).
 The collection was later gathered together with "Conan the Liberator" and "Conan and the Spider God" into the omnibus collection "Sagas of Conan" (Tor Books, 2004).
 The story has also been translated into Italian and French.
Sword and sorcery (S&S) is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures.
 An element of romance is often present, as is an element of magic and the supernatural.
 Unlike works of high fantasy, the tales, though dramatic, focus mainly on personal battles rather than world-endangering matters.
 Sword and sorcery commonly overlaps with heroic fantasy.
The Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America or SAGA was an informal group of American fantasy authors active from the 1960s through the 1980s, noted for their contributions to the "Sword and Sorcery" kind of heroic fantasy, itself a subgenre of fantasy.
 When it developed a serious purpose that was to promote the popularity and respectability of Sword and Sorcery fiction.
The Devil's Sword (Indonesian: "Golok Setan") is a 1984 Indonesian sword and sorcery film directed by Ratno Timoer.
 The film stars Indonesian action star Barry Prima who appears in such films as "Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters" and "The Warrior".
 "The Devil's Sword" crosses over into many different genres of film.
 The film features martial arts, and also elements of fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and also some mild sexual content due to the portrayal of the Alligator Queen.
The Sword of Skelos is a fantasy novel written by Andrew J. Offutt featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, the third and final volume in a trilogy beginning with "Conan and the Sorcerer" and continuing with "Conan the Mercenary" (which was actually published after "The Sword of Skelos", though relating events prior to it).
 It was first published in paperback in May 1979 by Bantam Books, and reprinted in August 1981.
 Later editions were issued by Ace Books (September 1987, reprinted May 1991) and Tor Books (February 2002).
 The first British edition was published by Sphere Books in 1989.
The Beastmaster is a 1982 sword and sorcery film directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, John Amos and Rip Torn.
 The film is about a child who is stolen from his mother's womb by a witch.
 The child grows into Dar, who has the ability to communicate telepathically with animals.
 Dar grows up in a village where he learns to do battle.
 But the village is destroyed by a race of beast-like warriors under the control of the sorcerer Maax.
 Dar vows revenge and travels with new friends to stop Maax from causing any more problems.

Question: What type of encounter does The Beastmaster and Sword and sorcery have in common?
Answer: battle