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<blockquote data-quote="Spike Y Jones" data-source="post: 1326531" data-attributes="member: 5108">Selling Your PC's NameI'd wanted to say something about this before, but didn't get around to it.If you put the name of a favourite character into a spell name that is then sold to a publisher, the character doesn't become the property of the publisher, just his name; you can still use the character in your own campaigns. You can even still publish his adventures on your website or wherever, although in this case you'd need to change his name (maybe only slightly: Almuric to Almarac).And if you sold the name in a spell for a D20 System complilation, you still may be in luck. If the publisher declares the name to be Open Content (and Bastion Press, the subject of this thread, is a very Open-Content-friendly publisher), then you don't have to resort to changing the name when you use it: You just have to include the book's copyright info in the Section 15 notice of the OGL page on your website.Spike Y Jones, who sold one of his favourite PCs to Atlas Games a year ago, but who can still play him whenever he wants</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spike Y Jones, post: 1326531, member: 5108"] [b]Selling Your PC's Name[/b] I'd wanted to say something about this before, but didn't get around to it. If you put the name of a favourite character into a spell name that is then sold to a publisher, the [i]character[/i] doesn't become the property of the publisher, just his name; you can still use the character in your own campaigns. You can even still publish his adventures on your website or wherever, although in this case you'd need to change his name (maybe only slightly: Almuric to Almarac). And if you sold the name in a spell for a D20 System complilation, you still may be in luck. If the publisher declares the name to be Open Content (and Bastion Press, the subject of this thread, is a very Open-Content-friendly publisher), then you don't have to resort to changing the name when you use it: You just have to include the book's copyright info in the Section 15 notice of the OGL page on your website. Spike Y Jones, who sold one of his favourite PCs to Atlas Games a year ago, but who can still play him whenever he wants [/QUOTE]

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