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From: john@x.UUCP (John Woods)
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Subject: Re: What is a Balrog?
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 11:40:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 11:40:14 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)

Yes, they were hobbits.  In fact, if you get a copy of the "Collector's
Edition" D&D (which is not the original edition that a "collector" would
want), you will note that certain parts of the manual are in a different
typeface:  "halflings", "treants", and all the other cases where they had
copyright "problems".
-- 
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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