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<blockquote data-quote="Skade" data-source="post: 649832" data-attributes="member: 3320"><p>Hope ya'll don't think this is a highjacking.</p><p></p><p>Atma: tell me what you would think of this situation. </p><p></p><p>Years ago a player comes to me in preperation for a high level game we are about to play that may include evil characters, so long as they have a good reason to be involved in this adventure. My campaign world has a long history of being concerned with Law vs Chaos being much more important than Good vs Evil, and in this particular case even the evil gods were worried about this new Evil. I digress...</p><p></p><p>So he says, "I want to play a Death Knight." That is all he knows at this point. So he and I collaborate. I come up with the characters name, Guttot Rosehelm. I explain to him the family history, the Rosehelms were already important. I come up with how his character turned from being a Hand (In game name for 2E paladins) to become a Death Knight. He comes up with the new god that he serves. He actually does a lot of work on this god, and gives me the info, telling me that I can use it all I like. The stats and mechanics are him.</p><p></p><p>Years pass. Guttot now an NPC (with his express permission) has undergone some changes, retrofit to match the changes to his god (again with permission). Mechanically he is no longer similar at all, being something very much unlike a Death Knight. This former player of mine has read my drafts of a novel and was pleased the character was used. </p><p></p><p>Now, he and I are not speaking. Should I remove him from my work? The name is "special" to me, and was actually one of my contributions to the character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skade, post: 649832, member: 3320"] Hope ya'll don't think this is a highjacking. Atma: tell me what you would think of this situation. Years ago a player comes to me in preperation for a high level game we are about to play that may include evil characters, so long as they have a good reason to be involved in this adventure. My campaign world has a long history of being concerned with Law vs Chaos being much more important than Good vs Evil, and in this particular case even the evil gods were worried about this new Evil. I digress... So he says, "I want to play a Death Knight." That is all he knows at this point. So he and I collaborate. I come up with the characters name, Guttot Rosehelm. I explain to him the family history, the Rosehelms were already important. I come up with how his character turned from being a Hand (In game name for 2E paladins) to become a Death Knight. He comes up with the new god that he serves. He actually does a lot of work on this god, and gives me the info, telling me that I can use it all I like. The stats and mechanics are him. Years pass. Guttot now an NPC (with his express permission) has undergone some changes, retrofit to match the changes to his god (again with permission). Mechanically he is no longer similar at all, being something very much unlike a Death Knight. This former player of mine has read my drafts of a novel and was pleased the character was used. Now, he and I are not speaking. Should I remove him from my work? The name is "special" to me, and was actually one of my contributions to the character. [/QUOTE]
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