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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 425544" data-attributes="member: 5328">I did it once by playing a character who shared my own illness, and who, being in a fantasy campaign and therefore without suitable drugs, was even worse than I am. I can't say that this was much of a success: Great Bronze Gong's erratic behaviour was probably the reason why that campaign collapsed.Anyway, you remind me that several RPGs I have played either put major insanities on 'goodies and bummers' tables in the character generation system or (like Call of Cthulhu) provide mechanisms for characters to become mad during play. I always thought that this was unsuitable: mania, major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, paranoia, and other psychoses are in the first place very difficult to play at all well, in the second place make a character anything up to worse than useless, in the third place won't be much fun to the player, and in the fourth place won't be any fun for the other characters. There may be a place for players who want to take on the challenge of playing a character with a major insanity, but imposing anything of this sort on a player willy-nilly is not, IMHO, a good idea. YMMV. YDWYDWP.Regards,Agback</blockquote>