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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9700719" data-attributes="member: 22779">Why would you not just have a quiet word with the DM if the DM is making you do something you absolutely couldn't see your character doing?  But, for me, things in your head that haven't come out at the table don't exist.  If you have some secret knowledge of your character that you haven't shared with me, the DM?  Too bad.  It's not true.  It doesn't become true until it comes out during the game.But, again, you're taking this to such a bizarre extreme.  Things that your character absolutely won't do.  Most characters don't really have that many lines that they absolutely won't cross that are somehow secret from the table.  Your character absolutely will not lie.  So on and so forth.OTOH, something like a morale check is, in my mind, perfectly plausible.  Characters break under stress.  It happens.  It happens all the time.  It's not an unreasonable thing and most characters don't have "will always fight to the death" as a character trait.  Having a morale score that can trigger fear effects isn't unreasonable or unheard of.  Nor will it "ruin" your character.</blockquote>