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Thanks, it's good to know folks have been enjoying this.

I actually paused more due to a desperate need to get caught up on real-life issues than anything else. The game itself has been going apace (the Green Hands just hit the Stag Lord's fort! Yay!), so I actually have a lot more to post as time permits (which should be soon).

I'm sorry your bothered by this, but:

a) You can't copyright names (a modicum of research can tell you this), and

b) The characters he came up with actually bear no resemblance beyond the names to anything either of you created, meaning he hasn't actually even committed plagiarism (again, please, look it up).

Was it unimaginative of him to recycle the names, yes. But do a search on the World of Warcraft Armory site, and you'll find names you'd think are unique are not (I counted 13 for Arixus alone). You don't own them. In fact, you can't. No intellectual properties have been stolen. No plagiarism has been tendered.

Look it up. Please. And let us let this forum thread go back to what it was intended.

Having just mentioned this to the player of both characters, as it turns out, he DID appropriate them (the names only, for completely different characters) as he remembers both of you fondly from many years of gaming. You knew him as Andrik, and he had no interest or expectation of using said names as an internet presence (he wasn't even aware I've been posting our adventures here). Either way, his version of Arixus Phae was fried by a Wisp, and shan't be seen again, and if Devin has concerns with him honoring the name of Allistar by giving it good use, he is welcome to get back in touch.

This is an outrage! Naleksa has ripped off two characters, and who knows how many more? Plagiarist!

She wrote: # Allistar Lancerey, my my. Cranky Elf with magic under his mantle. Not a euphemism, but an explanation of his ego. The arrogant, paranoid magi seems convinced I've be-spelled his compatriots. Silly wizard, my enchantments are all-natural.

# Arixus Phae,a warrior-woman with a sword every bit as large as my Zoresk. Which makes one wonder. What IS she compensating for?

Arixus Phae is MY character, and she is not a warrior. I don't appreciate you stealing that name, as it is mine. My character website is here: http://www.freewebs.com/arixus/

Allistar Lancerey is also a stolen name! He was a creation by my friend, Devin Asures, who roleplays with me. The proof is here: http://www.freewebs.com/moraviahistory/historicalfigures.htm

Shame on you, Naleksa. Stop stealing other people's work. This is the internet. I can find you.

Not in my game your not - people often come up with similar or identical character names unknowing, and I've never heard of any legal standing for shouting "firstsies" on the internet. If my players choose to call themselves by a name, and it is clearly not an infringement of someones' clearly marked copyrights or trademarks, I certainly have no problem with it. On that front, both Naleska and Anando are not my creations, but identities/npcs taken from the amazing Hirelings web-supplement (found elsewhere on this very site)and I don't think anyone here thinks I'm trying to infringe on that author's copyrights any more than anyone else here writing about their campaigns using the assorted Pathfinder APs in a section set aside for exactly that purpose.