Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24302820-20140822221301

I didn't want to thread-jack the Amaranthine thread, but BloodyBulldawg mentioned an old player character and made me think of this.

Speaking of old pcs, should there be a moratorium of sorts for old and long-unused characters? As a GM, I'm pretty fine with NPCs that I've created being used in anyone else's game, but what about player characters? How long should we wait before we consider a character abandoned? Should older characters be forever off-limits for use as NPCs without permission of the former player? Do we give special accommodation to 'retired' pcs, that is, ones who were not so much abandoned as given a permanent place to live out their days. Are such 'retired' pcs now NPCs, or is the common intention of the player that they be kept safely out of adventuring hands?

What does everyone think? 