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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oaken25" data-source="post: 653615" data-attributes="member: 5820">Last time I'm going to say this <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=":)" /> The PC did not have a problem with me keeping the PC in the game as a NPC, the problem was that they did not want the PC's name to be used, cause the name was special to them in some manner. At the time me and the PC had this discussion (which was before I even posted my first message on the boards about it), I was going to say No, I ain't changing a PC over a name, that's all it is, it's just a name, but after awhile and we both cooled off, I changed my mind and we discussed it and it was fixed yesterday (or 2 day's ago if your on the east coast, like I am, or if you live farther east, then the east coast. <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=":)" />). Then I posted about the topic to see if any one else who DM's has ever run into some one really being that picky about a DM reusing old PC's as NPC's.To my shock and horror, it seems a lot of people really hate that DM's do this. Why? I have no idea, well at that time I didn't but now since some of you have commented why, I've read some pretty interesting arguements for and against it. So I guess I learned a lesson about this and from now on I'm going to tell PC's upfront that I reuse their characters in my world and it's history. If they have a problem with it then I won't ever use thier PC's as part of my games history but I also won't really "include" that PC into my game because it would be a static character that would never really accomplish much cause as soon as they leave the game the PC would want everything that was changed to be ignored. But I still feel I really don't have to even ask them because D&D is a dual venture as I've said before the PC's help make the world, but as does the DM. So it's really hard to say who is has the "ownership" of a character, and as I also said technically the only one who "owns" a character is WOTC cause we all use thier books to play D&D. Other wise we all would just be writting out our own stories, and then this would never be a problem, cause then every one would own thier own characters, but there would be no roleplaying between a DM and PC's.</blockquote>

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