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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 650115" data-attributes="member: 8704">My PC, my creation, my control over what happens, that is the end of it, if I say no then no it is, the character is mine, I made him, he's not yours to play (PC or NPC, it makes no difference). To me playing him as a NPC would be the exact thing as you taking somebody else's character to another game to play as your PC, it's just wrong. I put a lot of time into my PC's and I don't want them abused after they have died or retired. Now name dropping of a old PC is just fine but actually running a old PC as a NPC isn't. If they say no then no it is. It would be different if it was stated at the start of the game that the PC would become part of the world setting, but then I wouldn't put all that much into the PC, If he's not mine then why would I care about him at all. I get into my characters and they all belong to me, I put part of me into them, using my character without my permission would be a slap in the face to me, it would be stealing and I would take it very personal. I don't care if it is for publishing or just to flesh out your world, it was mine and you took it. Now if we set down and talked about it then I might say ok, but I would want to know why and what you had planned. If I said no then that would be the end of it. Using my PC without permission would be the same as using my car without permission to me. I have given permission on several characters before it's not a big deal but if I say no, not this character then I mean no and that is always the end of it. Truthfully it doesn't come up much and when it does it is normally just name dropping and not actually use as a NPC.On a side note I actually bought a PC from somebody before, I paid them cash for it and they agreed never to use it again anywhere. I wanted him to flesh out a campaign and the guy said "give me $5". We haggled for a while over who would do what and how the character would be used. In the end I bought the character (I actually got the character, 2 henchmen, a fully fleshed out inteligent magical sword and a full written history). That was a long time ago.</blockquote>

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