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<blockquote data-quote="Firefly Games" data-source="post: 136372" data-attributes="member: 3900">I have no useful advice, only a funny story. Though it probably falls more into the DM cruelty category.A friend of mine played a fighter in a Forgotten Realms game. Due to his own impulsive actions, the fighter landed in jail several times. The player envisioned his fighter as a noble defender of the little people (but didn't play him that way), and doing all this prison time didn't fit his image. So he announced to the DM (not me) that his fighter killed himself in jail and he was going to make a new PC.DM: &quot;Your fighter kills himself? How does he do it?&quot;Player: &quot;Well, he hangs himself I guess.&quot;DM: &quot;No, he can't see anything in his cell to hang himself with.&quot;Player: &quot;Uh ... then he cuts his throat on something.&quot;DM: &quot;Nope. The guards searched him and took away all his weapons. And there's nothing sharp in the cell.&quot;Player: &quot;FINE! I run at the stone wall as fast as I can and smash my head into it until I'm dead!&quot;DM: &quot;OK, you smash&nbsp; your head into the stone wall a few times. You start feeling woozy and everything goes black ... a few hours later you wake up with a horrific headache ...&quot;Eventually the DM cut short the suicide attempts by putting the jail breakout he'd planned all along into action, and the PC went on to get thrown in jail another time or two before the campaign died.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Firefly Games, post: 136372, member: 3900"] I have no useful advice, only a funny story. Though it probably falls more into the DM cruelty category. A friend of mine played a fighter in a Forgotten Realms game. Due to his own impulsive actions, the fighter landed in jail several times. The player envisioned his fighter as a noble defender of the little people (but didn't play him that way), and doing all this prison time didn't fit his image. So he announced to the DM (not me) that his fighter killed himself in jail and he was going to make a new PC. DM: "Your fighter kills himself? How does he do it?" Player: "Well, he hangs himself I guess." DM: "No, he can't see anything in his cell to hang himself with." Player: "Uh ... then he cuts his throat on something." DM: "Nope. The guards searched him and took away all his weapons. And there's nothing sharp in the cell." Player: "FINE! I run at the stone wall as fast as I can and smash my head into it until I'm dead!" DM: "OK, you smash your head into the stone wall a few times. You start feeling woozy and everything goes black ... a few hours later you wake up with a horrific headache ..." Eventually the DM cut short the suicide attempts by putting the jail breakout he'd planned all along into action, and the PC went on to get thrown in jail another time or two before the campaign died. [/QUOTE]

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