Re: Who owns a character?

From: bergjeff@erols.com

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000

> This question came up on the Saturnalia-multi recently and I thought I'd
> open it up to a wider audience. The question concerned another PBM and
> was basically this:
> The GM had demanded the player send in a turn by a certain date or he
> would NPC him (although there were no other players involved with the
> character. [...] The player was unhappy with the idea that against his will
> 'his' character would continue to stride the world of 'Whatever' at the
> GM's whim. He saw the character as his own creation and objected to the
> GM using it against his will.... [...] so why shouldn't he
> have 'rights' over his character.
>
> Mark
>

Because noone can own another person, the character has the rights to
himslef. That is that there would be no infringement if the GM was not
running the character but letting the character run himself. However, this
only works if the character was created with or later gained freewill. If the
character does not have freewill then the creator of the character maintains
the rights to the character and only the creator can be authorized to control
the actions of the character. However, in this later case, the character does
still exist and if not given instructions, external events may still occur to
have an influence on the character (even including the granting of freewill
by a freewill fairy) and the character will react with basic instincts but
nothing more without freewill.

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References

Who owns a character?
mlwilliams <mwilliams@signal.dera.gov.uk>
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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Who owns a character?
mlwilliams <mwilliams@signal.dera.gov.uk>
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000