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Post by Dragyn on Mar 12, 2008 13:28:50 GMT -5
That I can believe, but I doubt "daemon" would fool even the most dense of bricks...
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Post by bloodreaper on Mar 12, 2008 15:47:21 GMT -5
It doesn't fool anybody, but people do it to seem less offensive than they are. It's p[litical correctness in a nutshell.
The use of deamon in place of demons first appeared in DnD when all of the demons were renamed to deamons and many of the flavor texts for magic were stripped down or removed entirely, in order to reduce the level of occultic themes in the game.
Later, the Deamons and devils were renamed to Tan'arri and bat'tazu, and all the subtypes like "type IV demon" "Chain Devil" were re-named to things like "Kyton". The following edition gave up and went back to demons and devils and gave the subtypes names that make sense (but kept the gibbersih names around as an alternative).
Leaving me, as DM, to feed my player's characters to Galabrezu and Cornugons or Bearded Devils and Horned devils (which are the same things) without having to call them Fiends of Battor instead of Devils from Hell. (--not that anybody couldn't have told you what they really were.)
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Post by Faith on Mar 12, 2008 21:27:17 GMT -5
Heh...
Okay...
So deamons are monsters and people try to use the word to make things less offensive or such, but it generally doesn't work... gotcha'...
(This is a viewer's idea of the concept...)
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Post by Dragyn on Mar 13, 2008 16:32:35 GMT -5
Close enough, at least.
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Post by Faith on Mar 13, 2008 16:40:58 GMT -5
Heh.
Yay! I've kinda almost observed correctly! ^_^
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mrlddragon
Youngling
Just call me "dragon"... but please don't take this literally and include the quotes!
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Post by mrlddragon on Mar 14, 2008 3:53:06 GMT -5
@fox: ALL HAIL THE ALL-KNOWING WIKIPEDIA!!! *bowing*
*bowing*
*some more*
* ditto *
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Post by Fox on Mar 14, 2008 12:51:21 GMT -5
Wikipedia? I was just going by personal experiance. XD
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Post by Dragyn on Mar 14, 2008 17:14:45 GMT -5
You assume too much, MrldDragon.
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mrlddragon
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Just call me "dragon"... but please don't take this literally and include the quotes!
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Post by mrlddragon on Mar 14, 2008 21:00:33 GMT -5
*laughs* yeah... you sure know your media, fox
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Post by Fox on Mar 14, 2008 22:38:37 GMT -5
Not like I have anything better to do in my free time. T.T Usually when I'm going through blockage of the art sort, I just play games all nights..and that happens a lot. XD
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Post by Faith on Mar 15, 2008 14:35:17 GMT -5
Heh. ;D I've not much of a clue about most of that stuff, myself...  |
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