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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 1830158" data-attributes="member: 1106">Rumour has it that these were added in an attempt to jump on the legal rights to synonyms of class names that competing games might try and use.Kyuss is not only the evil cleric who created Sons of Kyuss from the Fiend Folio, but also a &quot;stoner metal&quot; band from the 90s who named themselves after him.&nbsp; (A couple of them are now in Queens of the Stone Age.)Greyhawk has been destroyed at least a couple of times now (once in the letters page of Dragon magazine, and once by EGG in the Gord the Rogue novels).&nbsp; So no-one can set their game there anymore, and that's that.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> A practical joke map was once published that showed the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk on the same globe.Sturm the Solamnic Knight of the Dragonlance novels and modules had his name chosen because the designers wanted something more &quot;stern sounding&quot;.&quot;Hit points&quot; is a term borrowed from a naval wargame.A Forgotten Realms book on dwarves by Ed Greenwood features the dying race kidnapping human women for breeding purposes.Baldur's Gate II (based on 2nd edition AD&amp;D) features a halfling paladin named Mazzy, who comments that the gods might create a &quot;Third Edition of Halflings&quot; where they can be paladins.&nbsp; And a spectator beholder who understands metagaming; &quot;Oh, *I* get it! You think if a *Beholder* is guarding it, it *must* be cool!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 1830158, member: 1106"] Rumour has it that these were added in an attempt to jump on the legal rights to synonyms of class names that competing games might try and use. Kyuss is not only the evil cleric who created Sons of Kyuss from the Fiend Folio, but also a "stoner metal" band from the 90s who named themselves after him. (A couple of them are now in Queens of the Stone Age.) Greyhawk has been destroyed at least a couple of times now (once in the letters page of Dragon magazine, and once by EGG in the Gord the Rogue novels). So no-one can set their game there anymore, and that's that. :D A practical joke map was once published that showed the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk on the same globe. Sturm the Solamnic Knight of the Dragonlance novels and modules had his name chosen because the designers wanted something more "stern sounding". "Hit points" is a term borrowed from a naval wargame. A Forgotten Realms book on dwarves by Ed Greenwood features the dying race kidnapping human women for breeding purposes. Baldur's Gate II (based on 2nd edition AD&D) features a halfling paladin named Mazzy, who comments that the gods might create a "Third Edition of Halflings" where they can be paladins. And a spectator beholder who understands metagaming; "Oh, *I* get it! You think if a *Beholder* is guarding it, it *must* be cool!" [/QUOTE]

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