The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe

Daniel D Jones · 05 Jun 2007, 21:58 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: ddjones at riddlemaster.org (Daniel D Jones)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:58:18 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe
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On Tuesday 05 June 2007 12:53, Recursive Loop wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> "Well, at the risk of being labelled a nitpick, they
> are called halflings by the Gondorians. But it appears
> that it's a "real" word that can't be copyrighted."
>
> Nitpick away! You are exactly right. One word is the invention of the
> Professor. The other is a "real world word".
>
> Hence the deletion of "Cthulhu" and other words from the Monster Manual.

Although I haven't played in _years_, I still have the Monster Manual which 
includes creatures from Michael Moorcock's Elric/Immortal Champion series.  I 
don't recall which edition it is - I'm reasonably certain that it isn't the 
first - and I'd have to dig through a lot of boxes to find it.  But it's 
there.

> TSR had a good business relationship with Leiber and published supplements
> based on his works. 

I believe I also have a Lankhmar based campaign.

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