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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6791659" data-attributes="member: 98008">I'd insist OOC that anybody kill my character in such a circumstance. Very few, if any, of my characters would leave their friends to live out the rest of their lives as drooling vegetables, even if they were not in a dangerous area. If you are in the underdark, I think the coup de grace almost goes without saying. I'd question the resolve or motivations of any paladin that did NOT do it.Do characters in the game think in terms of "well, we just need to kill enough goblins to get six more levels so we can cure them..." do they even know that there is a cure? Do they have any reasonable belief that they will someday possess it? It seems a little gamey to lean heavily on OOC game mechanics to determine whether or not an in character action is moral or reasonable.Simply asking the DM if he wants the character kept alive to allow for some Deus Ex Machina to swoop in and save the day is not an unreasonable course of action. You want it to be fun for the other player to, if they have a great time playing a vegetable, who are we to stop them. Too bad if the other players' heroic fantasies don't involve diapers, feeding tubes and changing bed sore pads.</blockquote>