Category talk:Dungeons and Dragons

"Drow" actually isn't IP of Wizards of the Coast/TSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trow_(folklore) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svart%C3%A1lfar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar

They can trademark the name (you can trademark any word), but they haven't because it would be too hard to defend and they aren't actually selling elves, so they'd need a product to call that, and the concept can't be copyrighted since it's from Norse folklore.

Don't worry, it's a widely held misconception that TSR invented "Drow". They didn't. The Oxford English Dictionary gives no entry for "drow", but two of the citations under "trow" name it as an alternative form of the word.

However, everything about the Drow culture was invented by E. Gary Gygax: The affinity for spiders, the worship of Lolth (and Lolth herself), the matriarchal society, and characters like Drizzt Do'Urden and Elclavdra and places like Menzoberranzan and the Vault are all copyrighted and were created by TSR/WotC and their employees.