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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 652689" data-attributes="member: 812">It's not a molehill... it's a DOGPILE!Good grief! I just need to add my voice to the "WTF?" choir.There's some serious narcotic action involved in this conversation, is all I can say. It's sort of fun, reading the thread, in a "I can't believe people are arguing about this," sort of way.Let's recap. Player joins campaign, creates character. At some point player decides they will cease playing in this campaign.All well and good. Now player says to DM, "You can't have my character doing things in your campaign after I leave." As the DM, I would be VERY curious as to WHY the player insists on this. Because the character is special to them? Well, um... what? What does he care? What?But okay, fine, you don't want me to make things happen to your character, that's easy. Your character dies. Sudden heart attack, how tragic, so young, too. Now nobody will ever play your character. You may rest easy.What is all this with "I own my character. It's MINE!"? What are you going to do with it? I mean, seriously, what are you going to do with this character once you're out of my campaign? And how does me doing things with this character after you've left my campaign interfere with your ability to do whatever it is that you're going to do with it?I mean, if we're talking about how to handle late or absent players, well, that's one thing. You have to come to some agreement on that and I can understand a player not wanting a DM to be making decisions for a character they intend to play next session. Likewise with the whole publishing issue. I would be very leery writing anything professional-like using characters other people had created.But a retired character? What?Come on people, there's enough drivel on the Internet as it is.</blockquote>

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