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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malcolypse" data-source="post: 5721902" data-attributes="member: 92042">@ Elf Witch: "As a DM I will sometimes use family and friends as bait I have even used them to betray the party." The best use of a family member I've pulled off was in a Star Wars game where one of the characters had a little sister who was a Jedi Padawan. She was turned to the darkside and when the party finally defeated her master they ran into the issue of how dangerous she was. Drama and arguments for the rest of the session about what to do with her. It was great.[MENTION=56189]Kzach[/MENTION]: " It seems that people, absent consequences, will do whatever is best for themselves no matter the morality of the situation." That pretty much sums up humanity for you. Sad but true.As to the prisoner problem, I've seen it dealt with just about every way. My worst experience as a merciful player was that we'd caught a little old lady poisoning people. While she was in our captivity she slit her wrists, and my character was accused of murdering her, because he was covered in her blood from trying to put pressure on the wounds.My current DM pretty much never has anyone surrender, since in the first session our cleric ended up in a duel with an evil deity's cleric and chose to run him through instead of accept a plea for mercy.As a DM, the best prisoner escape ever was a master thief that the party had captured and tied up. They didn't set up a watch for some reason. When they woke up, he was tying himself back up after taking care of their horses and making them breakfast. One of them freaked out that they had to kill him because he could escape anytime and murder them. Saner heads prevailed that time.</blockquote>

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