Even worse? Someone (who didn't coin the term) is trying to trademark it. You know, to "protect" it from dangerous people. Scary stuff. That's one of the reasons I'm clinging to it - so Aleron

Heh. I hear ya. The debate has been raging a while. Guardians of the Flame came out in the 1980s, and I consider that LitRPG. The switching comes from the fact it was the Russians who coined the term.