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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Prunesquallor" data-source="post: 3971076" data-attributes="member: 51176">I suspect the reason we don't see &quot;hobbits&quot; in someone else's work is because they know they'd lose their shirt without the history D&amp;D and WFRP have. Think about it. Immediately after a big movie trilogy you &quot;just happen&quot; to come up with some sawed-off protagonist race. McKiernan's Iron Tower wouldn't get pubished today and Willow would go straight to DVD. &quot;Hobbits&quot; don't appear all over the place because they are iconic, not because they're unknown.Elves and Dwarves, in contrast, appear everywhere because they are generic. Ocs, like hobbits, are not. D&amp;D, like Warhammer and WoW, was able to stake a claim in the Orc before the movies. Could they now? Honestly, I don't think so. &quot;We're calling them the same thing, but they have pig snouts/they're green.&quot; Would that fly if the Tolkien estate decided to sue in the current climate? If I created a campaign settng with something called the &quot;Shadowfell&quot; wouldn't WOTC be on me like white on rice? Even if it dealt with creatures of elemental shadow rather than undead?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Prunesquallor, post: 3971076, member: 51176"] I suspect the reason we don't see "hobbits" in someone else's work is because they know they'd lose their shirt without the history D&D and WFRP have. Think about it. Immediately after a big movie trilogy you "just happen" to come up with some sawed-off protagonist race. McKiernan's [I]Iron Tower[/I] wouldn't get pubished today and [I]Willow[/I] would go straight to DVD. "Hobbits" don't appear all over the place because they are iconic, not because they're unknown. Elves and Dwarves, in contrast, appear everywhere because they are generic. Ocs, like hobbits, are not. D&D, like Warhammer and WoW, was able to stake a claim in the Orc before the movies. Could they now? Honestly, I don't think so. "We're calling them the same thing, but they have pig snouts/they're green." Would that fly if the Tolkien estate decided to sue in the current climate? If I created a campaign settng with something called the "Shadowfell" wouldn't WOTC be on me like white on rice? Even if it dealt with creatures of elemental shadow rather than undead? [/QUOTE]

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