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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 7985993" data-attributes="member: 4534">Are you familiar with verisimilitude?  It means giving the appearance of reality.  Most works of fantasy or science fiction contain fantastical elements as part of the setting requiring the audience to suspend their disbelief in order to enjoy it.  That doesn't mean the audience will just accept something without some sort of explanation.  I can accept the dead rising to feast upon the flesh of the living in The Walking Dead but if Rick Grimes shrugged of three gunshots to the chest it's going to stretch my ability to suspend disbelief beyond it's breaking point.  This will have a negative impact on my ability to enjoy the show.  On the flip side there are other genres where a character can take three gunshots to the chest without blinking and I'm fine with those.  Yes, let's get real.  I've never participated in a game where a player just decided to have their character jump off a cliff knowing it wouldn't do permanent damage just for the lulz.  Likewise, I've never had a player character decide to just shoot themselves in the head for some reason.  However, if they did, I'd ask them what they were trying to accomplish.  Odds are good that there's some underlying problem behind their decision.  But if they were hellbent on following through I'd make it clear that they were going to kill their character rules be damned.</blockquote>