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by Dove 5422 days ago
I don't know about that. I don't know what the legal threshold for such a thing would be, but it doesn't seem arbitrary to me.

I mean, scrolls are a major element in fantasy games, just like swords and wands and potions. If you could claim one of those words as a trademark, such that no one else could use it, I think it would do damage to the genre.