I mean, if you want to play your old character in someone else's campaign, why (or how) would I stop you? That doesn't impact what I might do in my own campaign world.
Awfully strong word considering it’s an imaginary thing.
Every member of the Court of Amber: "Are we supposed to be impressed?"
Usually. Might be an interesting legal question if someone did publish fiction based on a campaign (which has certainly happened and will continue to do so) that took off to such a degree that one or more people demanded a cut for their contributions at the tabletop. A single player's case would probably be awfully shaky even there were session recordings and similar hard evidence and the author cribbed dialog directly, but if a player wrote the fiction and the GM wanted to get paid for their worldbuilding efforts and had evidence to support their case? That might be something a judge would take a hard look at if things went that far. Fiction is probably transformative enough for the law, but maybe not, especially if the story lifted actual "box text" descriptive sections from the GM's notes.
First, no one has yet established in any way shape or form, that the law would consider you to have sole ownership of a character concept that exists in a shared imaginary world, especially one where other participants may (in some circumstances, depending on the rulestet, table etiquette, etc) be expected, in the normal course of play, to exert control over that character, and whose behaviour and history is likely to combine elements provided by multiple participants, both indirectly and directly.
Well I’m being slightly silly as this is a game that is usually played among friends. At the same time say my character is Bob (sorry world builder) and he’s a fighter and suddenly after the campaign ended and the dm turned my character into something they weren’t without getting my permission and the argument is well hes mine now . The only defense is the dm is just an a—.
