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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 154368" data-attributes="member: 527">Yes, twice.  Once was situation #1 Quickbeam mentions; the influence of mind-control spells.  In this case, an evil Wizard took control of our party by Charming the two fighters.  Lots of bad stuff can happen while the evil Wizard runs the show and everyone else is either Charmed or pretending to be Charmed.  There was one PK during this time, and, when the Wizard was finally done away with, the Charmed half of the party interpreted this as a second PK.  Even after everyone was de-Charmed, there was so much acrimony over what had happened and who had done what to who, that the party just broke up.  The second was situation #2, one player wanted to play CE.  The rest of us just thought he had a violent streak until he used a fight with Stirges as a cover to try and kill two party members who had reprimanded him for trying to hide a treasure item from the party.  Oddly enough, the only people to survive the fight were the CE player and the two people he tried to kill.  Everyone else was sucked dry by Stirges.  Anyway, I am mentioning these experiences because they show the big downside of intra-party conflict - eventually someone gets killed (often someone innocent) and the party breaks up.  Like they say, "Its all fun until someone loses a character." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />  (Actually, the same gaming group still plays together even after several mishaps; its just that there gets to be no way to hold a party of characters together once they start distrusting each other.  Does the Rogue want to stay in a party where a Bard casts Hold Person on him?  Not if his WIS is over 6.  Do the Bard and his brother want to watch over thier shoulders all the time for that poison dagger?  Not if they have an ounce of sense.)</blockquote>

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