Recent content by Irlo

I see what you're suggesting. I don't think that's good representation of how people find and chose games to play. Those five variously colored mugs are inside five different cabinets in five different kitchens in five diferent houses, and the people who own them don't necessarily want you to...

The food in this place is lousy, and the servings are too small!

This thread has jumped the shark. I’m out. I’ll be offline the rest of the day. I have to meet with my lawyers because the authorities discovered that I used to pretend to be Fonzie.

I'll just point out that you didn't ask my permission to imagine my entire campaign world (and, not incidentally, all my players' PCs in it) to be part of your game universe. :) Fortunately, what you imagine in your game doesn't affect what I and my players imagine in my game, so you're on solid...

Yes, let's not do that, for all sorts of reasons. (Again, not for the reason that the player "owns" the character.) I don't think you and I are talking about the same type of boundaries at all, so I won't be drilling into this topic any futher.

I consider my own boundaries to be irrelevant at a game table where I'm not a participant. I don't get this at all.

Yes, that's true. Perhaps you're responding to someone whose posts I can't read. How does this observation relate to the idea that a player can expect to restrict the imagined game content of others? Or is it unrelated?

I have to ask -- what does that mean, specifically? What limits can the owner require of others with regard to the player character? Can I tell my friends a story about your PC's adventures from the game last night? Can I make up a story to tell my friends about your PC? Are you the only one...

I know you're bowing out, so I'm not saying this in expectation of a response. But ... I never suggested that any activities in D&D have to be played out in real time, much less that the action declarations of the party members during an exploration. I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone...

Interesting. I've been wrong before -- and I will be again!

But you do have the right to draw or paint or sculpt the piece yourself and display it in your home. An orignal piece of visual art is not equivalent to a character played in an RPG.

I'll clarify. In the context of this thread (and of the thread from which this one derived), the concept of ownership of a character is expansive and includes the right to restrict or allow the use of that content in RPG games (hence the "s around owns in this thread's title). At least, that's...

Oh, I was not speaking of published works. I can draw Gandalf, I can write Lord of the Rings fan-fic, I can run a D&D game using Tolkien's characters and setting. Any ownership of the characters and ideas does not restrict anyone from that.

Ownership by a creator over an original character does not restrict anyone from drawing that character, writing or telling stories about that character, or using that character in a role-playing game. I don't think that restriction is a reasonable expectation by the creator, especially if left...

Very clearly, we don't all agree on that. Or at least we don't agree on what rights the purported ownership conveys on the player.