Terquem wrote:
When you are the Dungeon Master –
Don’t you just feel sick when someone other than you comes up with an idea for something they think should be in your campaign world?
Or, when you are a Player –
Does your stomach knot up when someone else recommends a character build that you haven’t used before?
I know I get floored whenever I have to deal, face to face, with the notion that someone else created something I didn’t think of first.
I know they now have Swiftamine® for when you get vertigo realizing you love Taylor Swift, but what do they have for that deep down in your gut sickness that comes from realizing other people created something for your favorite RPG before you thought of it?
How long will it be before , Other People Creating Stuff (OPCS) strikes you or someone you love?
What do I do when somebody creates something great before me? I SHANK 'EM and take their stuff for MY own! AND NO WITNESSES- they gotta go too! Life's too short to let other peoples' good ideas go to waste (in their hands).
And besides, the dead stiff DID SAY the thought you should have the idea (whether it be in your world or your character.) Good enough to count as Last Will and Testimony in my opinion! (It's MY opinion, NOT yours.)
But even if I didn't shank 'em and take their stuff, I'd at least take it with grace, and if the idea appealed to me, might explore puttin' it in. Life's too short to let other peoples' ideas go to waste.