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From: jacob@chalmers.UUCP (Jacob Hallen)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: What is a Balrog?
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 02:50:04 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 19 02:50:04 1985
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In D&D (the original, greyish-brown box of booklets) there was a monster
called Balrog. It was strengthened quite a bit and the name was, for
copyright reasons, changed to Balor when the Monster manual was published.
Before going really comercial in 1977, TSR held views that are usual in
the small end of the gaming industry. Copyrights were not all that important,
service was on a personal basis and E G Gygax said that D&D wasn't a perfect
game - go ahead and change it to your liking. 

Those were times!

Jacob

(I think hobbits were called hobbits and not haflings in the first edition 
of D&D but I'm not sure)