> From: Russ Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I'm also more than a little curious why WotC doesn't consider Cthulu > (octopus-headed humanoid) and the deep ones (sahaugin) to be > prior art in > the area of Lovecraft-inspired/copied critters, of which D&D > has a pile. > Lovecraft is, I believe, public-domained, but that just makes > the claim > to copyright on cthulu-looking critters more fuzzy. Unlike 99% of the creatures in the D&D beastiary, I have fairly good first-person sources for the evolution and practical application of the "Mind Flayer" and the term "Illithid" which support the old TSR claim of copyright. I don't have that information for sahuagin (which doesn't mean that TSR didn't create them, just that I have (had) no specific credible documentation outlining how they might have originated or who did the origination). Ryan _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
