On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:27:09 +0900, Joe Wiltrout <wiltroutja / hotmail.com> wrote:
>> As far as I can tell, these days a lot of culturally illiterate fantasy
>> authors (up to and including a lot of game writers) simply use "demon"
>> to mean a sort of monster, whether evil or ambivalent.

> Good idea. Let's go and sue Runescape, Dungeons and Dragons, World of
> Warcraft, Diablo, and every other company that uses the word Demon!
> Huzah!

While I have to admit that fantasy settings which strip-mine the
world's mythologies and religions as a source of names for random things
is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, I can't say I see a benefit to lawsuits.

-mental