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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 2415238" data-attributes="member: 9037">I keep reading that DMs feel that it is their world and their's alone. That is BS. The PCs interact with that world and change it. They have an investment in the world too. It is a shared experience. For example a player makes up an entire monkl order and the DM use it in his world. Can you still claim it is your world and your alone?AS for DM using PCs I don't see a problem with it as long as they discuss it with the player. That is if the player is still in the game. I would be very annoyed if a retired character of mine was suddenly changed in a way that did not make any sense to me. Now if I no longer play in the game I could care less.On the same page though I don't see any problem with a DM taking ideas from other DMs worlds they have played in.I do have a problem if someone would try and publish a novel or short story using my character or world. I have an old DM who is trying to do that. She has taken all our characters and is using them in her novel. I have several problems with this first the world was a shared world several DMs help create it.  I wrote several short stories based on several of the characters I created. Now she is telling me that I have to stop and that she will take legal action if I try and publish. This is just wrong. I developed these characters I made their backgrounds and I developed several religious and bardic orders for them. When I wrote the short stories with my character and my creations I set them in a different world. I have told her that she needs to change my characters and their backgrounds enough so they are not the same that is the best solution, but she refuses to do it. She says she was the DM she created the world and everyhing in it belongs to her.On the other hand I am writing a novel based on a game I played in. But I asked permission of the DM and the other players who said yes go ahead.</blockquote>

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