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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2421407" data-attributes="member: 5143">I just don't see it that way, I see any character in my game as equally owned by me.&nbsp; I know other people view it that way, but I see everything in my game as cooperative fun amongst the members with a slight dictatorship in favor of the DM.In the same way, as a DM if I said &quot;Your character breaks out in sores&quot;, you can't say &quot;What!?&nbsp; You can't make things happen to my character that I never intended!&quot;, you can't do it AFTER you stop playing either.I wouldn't give a character a disease in order to make the player feel bad.&nbsp; However, if the rules say they failed a save or I decided that it was needed to have a player come down with a disease in order to make the story more interesting, it would happen.&nbsp; Same thing if the player wasn't there and I was running their character, even if they left the campaign.And yes, I &quot;abuse&quot; artists on the radio by purposefully singing the wrong words to their songs when I hear them on the radio, and I've used popular characters in my games before without asking the authors permission and probably ran them different than they would.&nbsp; I could kill off Elminster in my game and not feel the need to apologize to the creator of the Forgotten Realms.&nbsp; The same contract exists &quot;unwritten&quot; in my game that exists when Elminster's stats appear in the book &quot;here is a character, use him how you want&quot;.&nbsp; I allow the players as much freedom as I can, but it is still my game, my story, and I allow players to play in it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 2421407, member: 5143"] I just don't see it that way, I see any character in my game as equally owned by me. I know other people view it that way, but I see everything in my game as cooperative fun amongst the members with a slight dictatorship in favor of the DM. In the same way, as a DM if I said "Your character breaks out in sores", you can't say "What!? You can't make things happen to my character that I never intended!", you can't do it AFTER you stop playing either. I wouldn't give a character a disease in order to make the player feel bad. However, if the rules say they failed a save or I decided that it was needed to have a player come down with a disease in order to make the story more interesting, it would happen. Same thing if the player wasn't there and I was running their character, even if they left the campaign. And yes, I "abuse" artists on the radio by purposefully singing the wrong words to their songs when I hear them on the radio, and I've used popular characters in my games before without asking the authors permission and probably ran them different than they would. I could kill off Elminster in my game and not feel the need to apologize to the creator of the Forgotten Realms. The same contract exists "unwritten" in my game that exists when Elminster's stats appear in the book "here is a character, use him how you want". I allow the players as much freedom as I can, but it is still my game, my story, and I allow players to play in it. [/QUOTE]

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