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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tburdett" data-source="post: 427816" data-attributes="member: 4714">When I was in college, and right after, a group of us played D&D and a variety of other RPG games every weekend.During a session of Rolemaster we learned something new about one of the players.  We learned that Warren was an extreme homophobe.The circumstances that revealed this to us were very unfortunate.Our characters had been taken captive and were going to be tortured.  Warren seemed really tense about the who situation and kept stating that his character would commit suicide if the creatures tried to do anything weird to him.  We all looked at him a little funny and played on.  None of us suspected the reaction we were about to witness.The DM decided to play off of what Warren had said and told him that the creatures were entering his cell with manacles, whips, chains and that they were talking in a suggestive manner.Warren said that his character was dead.  The DM asked how he planned to accomplish this, and Warren replied that he should be able to find something to kill himself with.  The DM said no.Warrens character attacked the guards and was knocked unconscious.  At this point Warren seemed a little relieved.The DM moved on to the next player and we all played out our cell scenario with some of us pretending to cooperate, and others being beaten up and tortured.Then the DM looked back over to Warren and told him that his PC was regaining consciousness and that he felt a funny tingle and pain around his rear.Warren completely lost his mind.  He started screaming and crying and flipped the table completely over.  He then tried to go after the DM with a knife that none of us knew he carried.  To this day I firmly believe that he would have killed the DM if we hadn't stopped him.Another player was able to flip a chair into his way, tripping him.  I jumped on him and was able to immobilize his arm while yet another player stomped on his hand to get him to let go of the knife.After about 10 minutes he calmed down enough for us to let him up.  He stood up, grabbed his stuff, and then left.  He didn't say a word.I found out from his parents a few days later that he'd had a bad experience while he was in the service.  Whatever it was that had happened had left him catatonic for a while and eventually resulted in a medical discharge.  He never spoke to them about whatever it was.I called him a week later and explained that he was welcome to game with us, and that we'd avoid any topics that made him homicidal.  He laughed, and re-joined our sessions until the group finally broke up.</blockquote>

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