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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 650083" data-attributes="member: 9045">Well, just as the Character is the property of the Player, so the Campaign World is the property of the DM, the knife cuts both ways equally.  Now of course, ideally, everything is pleasant between the two and no problems occur that would cause either to want to have an arguement about the issue.  And really, if there's no chance of publication in any sense then the issue is pretty unimportant (save for any personal ideosyncracies an individual may or may not have) anyway.  But, being the sort of person I am, I try to always be aware that at some tenebrous point down the line, there is always a chance someone may want to publish something based off of something I was involved in.  And I try to cover my bets where anything I feel territorial about is concerned for just such contingencies.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Now take this fun situation as an example of how this thread can get even hairier.  A Campaign World, co-created originally, but never DM'ed by anyone (and in truth, never even finished).  Multiple aspects of the world, it's NPCs, et al, re-tooled various times, with various amounts of each being given more or less involvement from one or the other creator each retooling.  The issue of possible publication at some point in time being known by both parties fromthe get-go (we always wanted to, someday, if it ever got done).  Now there is/was a sticky situation.(For anyone curious, it's a solo effort on my part now, with a nearly complete re-creation.  But I'll still get his permission for any of his 'pet inclusions' I want to use, including the world name, which was also co-created.  I'll probably offer him a piece of the profits too, just because it never would have even begun without him.  But that's my solution)</blockquote>

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