Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!ereborbbs.duckdns.org!.POSTED.192.168.18.6!not-for-mail From: Kyonshi Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Subject: Re: 'hobbit' generic/scientific term now that should be used Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 10:32:25 +0100 Organization: Erebor InterNetNews Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c3066ed76bae8bcc0e476efb157ff758 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 09:32:25 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: ereborbbs.duckdns.org; posting-host="192.168.18.6"; logging-data="16881"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ereborbbs.duckdns.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2341 Lines: 28 On 11/7/2024 9:01 PM, Zaghadka wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 07:07:35 -0000 (UTC), David Chmelik > wrote: > >> 'Hobbit' is a generic/scientific term now that should be used. For over >> 20 years, science refers to ancient small humans as 'hobbits', which might >> even fit some current-day people. So, Dungeons & Dragons should just re- >> add the term. Most/all my D&D groups used the term. >> >> Of course, D&D can't re-add terms 'balrog', 'ent', 'nazgul', etc., which >> are in first edition, replaced in second edition (literary edition, not >> ruleset edition, which didn't change). > > "Troll" is the term I would apply to this. > > There was no Balrog in 1e (it was a Type VI demon, ex: "Balor"), nor Ent > (it was Treeant), nor Nazgul. > I assume he meant ODnD, which is what I think he meant with the difference between literary and ruleset edition. Thankfully there are nerds interested in everything (I am not precluding myself from being one) so someone made a blogpost listing all of the changes they did in that regard: http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2022/02/removed-or-changed-references-to-jrr.html They changed stuff starting from the 5th printing of Chainmail 3rd edition and the 6th printing of the Original Dungeons and Dragons Box Set.