D&D Players,When have you ever unironically said "It's what my character would do"?

[@Squall598]

When the DM introduced a trap that my character would very obviously go for even though we all knew it was a trap. Including the character. I just said "this is what my character would do" and walked straight into the trap. DM loved it, other players groaned over it because they'd have to rescue me but over all it was a great session and was filled with fantastic role play.

[@theorangeslice9678]

Rolled a nat one nature check to investigate a glowing cave mushroom. Immediately ate the mushroom afterwards.

[@LegendStormcrow]

Did it recharge your batteries? If not, you were not playing a Yaun-ti, because it always gives snakes fresh batteries.

[@trymv1578]

Playing Star Wars d20 and rolled a 1 to determine a sith crystal. The DM laughed and said 'the wookie (me) thinks its candy' so my immediate reaction was 'then I eat it.' I rolled a 20 on the Fort check so he was so bewildered overall that he ended up giving me a bonus feat for it all.

[@LegendStormcrow]

@@trymv1578 In the words of Snake, aka Big Boss "how does it taste?"

[@Dones47]

I appreciate Bojack being in the thumbnail. He's probably one of the most solid "It's what my character would do" sort of character.

[@zamba136]

I do it fairly often, as roleplaying is more important to me than metagaming purely for player cohesion. It has never caused huge player conflicts, and i always circumvent the issue by finding a path forward. It really doesn't have to be an IRL controversial moment.

[@michaelnelson8618]

Played a low wisdom Paladin in Grim Hollow. Bard's player got upset with me for running headlong into an obvious trap: a woman down a dark corridor just standing there crying. Of course she was an illusion; I knew that, but Mr. Righteous Blade just wanted a chance to be a hero - "It's what my character would do." Would do it again. Narrative first then rules / metagaming / everything else :)

[@proxy90909]

You did the right thing, the brotherhood of palabros jumping into obvious trouble for the chance to save a life salutes: Later might have been to late and I would regret not acting more than I will ever regret falling for a trap

[@michaelnelson8618]

@proxy90909 May your blade never dull!

[@robinthrush9672]

When in Curse of Strahd, the DM misread an instruction at the Bone Grinder and told us our characters know hags are grinding up children's bones to make cookies from. I was playing an angelic-succubus, lawful good paladin who was unable to have children with her deceased husband (a halfling bard when she was a normal succubus). I checked with the DM above game 3 times to make sure he was certain our characters knew this and put heavy emphasis on what my character was before announcing that she was off to kill the hags (at level 5, I think). The cleric convinced her to hold off until we were stronger to assure victory. I would have purposefully failed the check anyway as I didn't want to wipe the party.

[@ShadowEclipex]

"This is how my character would react" is a great counter to "It's what my character would do."

[@spunkytheskunky]

It absolutely is. And I always encourage other players to do that when I do something purely for the sake of my character. If I am in a party that doesn't mesh well with my character, why would my character stay for years with that group? Better to have my character learn that they aren't going to work out well than pretend they are doing fine

[@schwarzerritter5724]

My celestial warlock tried befriending a boss just before a hyped up battle. Her argument was there was clear evidence the fight was clearly set up by a trickster god. That means every possible outcome of the fight would be bad for the boss and therefore the only winning move was becoming her friend. After going through his notes for 10 minutes, the DM allowed a persuasion check that totally succeeded. It's what my character would do.

[@5Demona5]

The only time I pulled the "That's what she would do" stunt, I made sure the rest of the players were cool with it. We now remember that moment as "The break of the mad woman"

[@anwd8646]

Oh no, that title concerns me. Pray tell it was a beautiful happening?

[@BooGaLouBae]

Can we know the story😂😂that’s one hell of a title

[@grabtharshammer2085]

My DM put us into a kobyashi maru situation and everyone was ready to surrender, but I wouldn't. I did everything possible to keep our boat from out running this mechanical contraption of a pirate ship. Even if that meant strapping myself to the back with a decanter of endless water to uses a jet to propel us forward, doing force damage to myself in the process. Eventually we were caught and I had to do the ensuing battle with no spell slots as a war cleric. Because it's what my character would do. Or moreso, wouldn't do

[@glennschroeder3828]

While never at the gaming table, I have said it a few times in real life when about to make an obviously questionable decision lol.

[@kjj26k]

Honestly, that's pretty legit.

[@sparkselm173]

While I've never said the words, I've had a few "it's what my character would do" moments. One of note comes from a One Piece campaign (PCs as Marines) I've been in for over a year now (this happened around the start of the year); The crew had ended up on the could islands, and managed to stumble into a meeting between two warlords and several of their commanders. It's important to note that, at this point, the crew hadn't even faced a single warlord on their own, and had, at times, struggled to fight lone warlord commanders as a group. One of the commanders happened to be a half-fishman that had been involved with the enslavement of a mermaid the crew had recently rescued, and I was playing a fishman. One quick failed wisdom save, and my character rushed the room to try and fight this one guy, getting downed almost instantly and dragged out by one of the two other PCs that were present, losing her weapon (which was Kaido's kanabo "Hassaikai") due to the fact it was simply too heavy for the other PCs to carry out of the room. To this day, my character is waiting for the day she can defeat that half-fishman for his involvement in enslaving a fellow deep sea dweller.

[@CrazyHawkeComics]

When my dragonborn barbarian tried to kill a vampire that was turning into a demon portal that the other party members wanted to spare because he was "sexy". They still have not let it go to this day!

[@TheNorfAndOnly]

Okay, I’m more confused by your party than your actions lmao

[@CrazyHawkeComics]

@@TheNorfAndOnly In their defense, he was a pretty good-looking vampire

[@monk3110]

@@TheNorfAndOnlydo they have like a enthralling effect or is this just the party being goofy?

[@Badartist888]

This is sounding a lot like an episode of Buffy.

[@CrazyHawkeComics]

@@monk3110 goofy party shenanigans

[@Robinxen]

I have one character who was the epitome of this and had such highlights as: Diving straight overboard to save drowning people... into shark infested water while wearing heavy armour... and then later on straight up refusing to negotiate with a band of villains that were definitely superior in strength and numbers until rendered unconscious by his party members... and after that accepting an entire quest chain entirely because there was a damsel in distress to rescue. He accidentally became a central figure of the campaign because everything had to work around the storybook protagonist level code of conduct he had to follow.

[@FoxMagi]

My character in one my games, after we defeated one of the BBEG's minions got visited by the BBEG in spirit form. It was a Dracolich. The fear aura was for 4th level characters... almost mind destroying. So after "taunting" us for a couple of moments, it left. I said to the DM, "My character is going to go behind one of the stone pillars and cast Prestidigitation on my shorts."

[@lucianite0]

A friend's character welcomed death and refused resurrection despite us desperately needing their help because all they've wanted was the afterlife.

[@dragoknight589]

the artist was having fun with that second one

[@Weaponx603]

One of my best moments of that was when my character recklessly ran into a battle due to his anger and attacked the red dragon that burned his hometown, the party was put into danger at the end of the fight so he ran into the dragon’s fire breath in front of them and used the last of his life to cast a final Hellish Rebuke to end the fight

[@lurking_doc6657]

6:40 "why are you booing me, i was right" ahh kinda event

[@justincarver9625]

I only remember saying that once. I was playing LG monk and I was trying to arrest an NPC nefarious rogue. A few party members didn't want to bother with it. Well, the rogue tried to escape the arrest, and my party killed the NPC during the chase. My character was pretty upset with the other who landed the killing blow.

[@lemongaming152]

My character was kidnapped by the Fey at a young age and had never seen alcohol before. My first visit to a tavern ended on the floor, trying to cast spells and rolling wild magic

[@akunbora]

For me, if it could potentially be controversial, a little bit of silence /doubt while people wait expectantly for the decision, plus showing annoyance toward your character in the third person, are the easiest ways to make people understand that it’s really not what you personally want and not something you’re carelessly forcing onto the character. Instead, it can end up being an exciting 'oh no' moment most of the time, which people ironically want. Or... maybe it’s just that all the people I play with are cool, socially adept angels, which is far better, ngl.

[@stewartlaird4571]

I had a lizardfolk Barbarian with low intelligence that quickly became my id incarnate. Not wanting to sabotage the party all the time, I had given myself the rule that if I had a dumb idea, I'd roll a dice to see if I'd follow through. This did however mean that this one guy that we were interrogating (that was pushing all the buttons) got his neck ripped out. Sorry guys, it's what my character would have done and the dice said do it

[@monk3110]

I feel like the party failed by not kind of treating you like a pet 😂 They should’ve known better than to have you in there 🤣

[@jonathanmarks3112]

Two-Face from Batman vibes.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

Do you mean you as a player would roll the dice? Or do you mean your character would roll the dice? Because if it was you as a player, that it perhaps one of the dumbest rules I've ever heard. That would be like flipping a coin to see if you break something in a friend's house. You aren't somehow making it fair, you're just making it unpredictable of whether or not the party would be better off without you.

[@xenohazard]

Do you not grasp what impulsive thoughts are or the fact that lizards don't have a prefrontal cortex that determines self control? It was perfectly fair.

[@DnDAddictUK]

Firbolg ranger, used speech of beast and leaf to speak to the trees in a magical forest, rolled really low on persuasion (even with advantage) and ended up nearly getting the party killed by the trees...... that was fun

[@swahilimaster]

I played a character that was Lawful/Chaotic and the DM said he didn't know what that was supposed to mean. It boiled down to controlled chaos, where my character would systematically try to achieve anything the party wanted or needed by doing things that to them and the DM didn't make sense immediately, but also were not the sort of things that would derail the session, and in many cases when they would ask why I did it the way I did the actual answer was "It's what my character would do". One of my favorite gimmicks on that character was that I carried around a bag of teeth that I would pull from notable enemies we killed which also had a pocket for lumps of sugar. Whenever I would make intimidation checks I would either rattle the bag at them or else start eating the sugar lumps acting like I was eating teeth. He would often offer random NPC's teeth for no discernable reason or just hand them a few and walk away. I took tavern brawler specifically so I could mollywop people with my bag of teeth then wrestle them to the ground, if it was a particularly evil or unlikable enemy I would then start trying to force feed them teeth. Eventually I convinced the DM to let me use it as a spellcasting focus, and later to allow me to use magic stone on them in place of pebbles. The character was a ranger that I had stacked perception on so that my passive at the time was a 26, and beyond it being handy for spotting anything that mattered I would use it on people to see what kind of shape their teeth were in so I could make comments about them. Teeth were only one of his many gimmicks, but it was definitely one I had a lot of fun with.

[@asuke100]

Brutal yet quite fun and unique xD Glad ya had a party / DM that went along with it, despite how bizarre it was

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

That's not what lawful means. Lawful is having personal values that you will never part with. It does not mean "approach things from a logical viewpoint." Sorry, but your attempt at being special failed.

[@swahilimaster]

@@addison_v_ertisement1678 Actually lawful in D&D also traditionally includes being disciplined and/or adhering to the rules of a society, group, or religion, hence monks and paladins traditionally being forced to play lawful characters. Your definition in no way invalidates my character's alignment, he acts in a manner that both adheres to his god's and personal values, while still achieving the parties goals without causing problems for them or the greater public. In this case chaos is specifically a tenant of his code of conduct, though it is employed in a goal oriented nearly ritualistic manner. The second half of your alignment pertains to your ethics, with good and evil being on opposite ends. For a character who is neither, but also willing to be as good or evil as it takes to achieve greater goals neutral does not really fit. A neutral character either cares for neither good or evil strongly or else seeks balance My character cared for both good and evil strongly as being tools for the party's goals and upholding his personal tenant of chaos with a purpose, yet had absolutely no regard for balancing the two in any meaningful way. Your post shows both a limited understanding of the source material as well as a general inability to see things beyond the basics of how things have been presented to you. Dungeons and Dragons doesn't even enforce alignment on players anymore, it is literally just a self imposed label for roleplaying purposes. It's a game, maybe try having fun with it. Sorry, but your attempt to learn me one failed.

[@LeonardAndHisBiscuit]

"The Bard getting sprayed by troll blood every time I hit it almost died and the players didn't like it." Meanwhile me wondering why the Bard thought it would be a good idea to stand around a troll long enough to get sprayed by that much blood.

[@apricotluma]

Was a Warforged that had the backstory of being a modified Modron (Acted sort of like a space marine from Warhammer, having extreme loyalty to the "Emperor"/Primus), was helping the party defend his home plane of Mechanus against corruption and was fighting against a Marut it was friends with before its transformation. The Marut was self-destructing, potentially catching everyone in the party fighting it in its blast, and as my character would do, it leapt onto the Marut in order to save everyone (It did end up surviving surprisingly).

[@thesong7877]

When I was pointing out that if the other player used that claim the cliche way my character's response would have to be killing them for what they did.

[@tlkensei2]

Always. I immerse myself in my character.

[@DarkRabbit-ck2ur]

Played a kholo (gnoll) Rolled a good Perception check to peer into a hole in the door. Saw another door ahead. To the left a very large scorpion. Looked to my party member, a lizardfolk monk (they had a lot of energy but not a lot of smarts--really leaning on INT being a dump stat), told them "hey, why don't you run over to that door and see if it opens..." The lizardfolk monk is a good friend of mine and cursed me out of character, but then was like "Okay! I'm on it!" in character. They were snagged by the scorpion before they reached the door and combat started. We both leaned into our characters. Me being a nomad of a evil tribe of kholo who wanted to work smarter not harder, and my friend being a overly trusting member of the party.

[@KitsuneScholar]

Most recent one? My character in my Saturday game has an irrational fear of puppets/mannequins, and in her panic, used her only 6th level spell slot on Harm to make it go away. The puppet maybe had 15 HP since it was a horde of them. She still has the fear.

[@godofzombi]

Man I'm sick of people dunkin' on "It's what my character would do." that sentence just means: I'm playing my character the way they are written/intended. If you are not doing what your character would do, you're basically METAGAMING.

[@achromaticism]

Once, as a new-ish player playing a rogue in a one-shot I rolled [i guess pretty low, but it was a blind GM roll so I couldn't see the actual total] on a check to search for traps in a room. Was told everything looked fine. I'm too paranoid to accept that, though, and am about to say that I look closer when I realize wait, no, my character would take that at face value. Gave an enitre little speech about how I needed to stop playing my characters as anxious as I am. Ran into the room. Activated a rock trap and lost half my HP in one move.

[@Mardshima89]

Missing the chance of having epic battle against Tiamat by negotiating with her instead.

[@andrewwilliams8951]

My Kenku Paladin who used to work for a BBEG in his backstory before ending up trying to emulate the hero after watching a hero kill said BBEG [Hence his Paladin Class] ended up brutally torturing an NPC we were interrogating to everyone's dismay. It's what my character would do. Its the only interrogation he knows.

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

BG3 story for a character I recreated from 5E. My character is a devout follower of the Raven Queen. For those that don't know, she is the goddess of death and hates undead and cheating death. Guess how many times he attacked Withers before just giving up. LOL

[@Sossedovaidan]

I killed the priest at the start of Curse of Strahd. I was playing an extremely zealous paladin of Lathander(roleplay), in part my character had come to the area of of the campaign solely to 'bring the morninglord" to Barovia and remove anyone corrupting his name. Our Dm knowing this made Donovich, a priest of Lathander, openly reject and doubt Lathander to me. That along with the dm describing my character feeling a sense of wrong coming from the church itself, punted the little shit into a wall and killed him with a nat 20 divine smite. Oh and I got to yell "HERETIC!" really loudly. To specify, my character didn't go around murdering people for not worshiping Lathander. He killed the priest because he was sworn to guide his flock and instead had turned his back on his god. In my character's eye this left room for the priest to be corrupted by the forces within Barovia, His son being further evidence. Other characters like random npc would doubted Lathander, I would try to convert with persuasion, but I wouldn't kill or hurt them if they refused. In another campaign I was playing a character who hate goblins, and had never seen an elf before. Me and the Dm decided we would roll to see if I could tell an elf wasn't a subspecies of goblin. Before the campaign had even started I warned another player who was playing an elf(he had decided this after my discussion with the dm) about this possibility, just so he would know if wasn't personal. well the game starts and I fail my roll. My character immediately shoots him and puts him into a bleeding out state. every other character fails a check to identify what an elf is and we have to debate a bit on whether I (the doctor of the group) should stabilize him. eventually we decided yes. I later pissed of Strahd by referring to him as a goblin as well

[@tomasheredia9829]

I wanted a mimic as a pet, but to be clear, my character had a confrontation with the whole party and almost died, but just to be clear everyone in that room had at least one eldritch horror as a pet in previous rols

[@vortega472]

1st Edition, I was a Druid - so true neutral. We seemingly found an artifact that would grant our greatest wish (it was cursed, and the opposite happened). When it was my turn the DM asked what my wish would be - I said nothing. The DM accused me of metagaming. I replied, I'm a Druid, I'm neutral - all about balance. What am I going to wish for? To be even more neutral. A better grade of weed? Instead of Mendocino Greeno I'll take Tai Stick or Maui Waui. It's what my character would wish for - nothing. He looked at me, gave me nodding respect and that's when the false item was revealed to be cursed. When we found the true item - I told the DM I want to make my wish. He's like - what? Whatever my fellow players lost, they would regain it. Balance. He called me a son of a beach (well the real word) and I earned two levels instead of one...because being a 1st edition Druid, it's what my character would do.

[@adelaideharper9201]

It's not D&D, but my New Republic Commando sacrificed herself to stuff a woman and child into her spot on an evacuation transport in a Star Wars game.

[@JoeMazzolaTheFirstPersonCook]

Our characters went to an infirmary after a demon attack and my cleric blew all his remaining spell slots on the wounded. It's what my character would do 😭

[@monk3110]

Excessive but it’s weird to just plow through the world ignoring that stuff. We were adventuring and we came across a severely wounded person whom told us something we needed to know and everyone is just like “ok off we go” and I’m actually mortified, yes I can get my feeling worked up in role play 😅, and I was flabbergasted we were gonna just leave and then everyone eye rolls as I “waste a potion/wand charge” whatever it was

[@asuke100]

@@monk3110 Welcome to DnD, a role-playing game where people don't role-play xD A lot of people still treat it like a game, which fair, but they kinda miss the point :/ The best stories come from RP moments even if it has combat so idk why folks still don't try to embody their chars. Even I am currently in a situation where my char absolutely hates some1 in the party. I've messaged her giving her a cheat sheet of things he likes and doesn't like hoping to fix the situation. Next session the first thing she does is one of the top items on the "he does not like this" list -_- and on the same session, she does something that I specifically told her "Hey, if ya do this, he doesn't really value any of it" and she does it saying "Oh, I'm doing this to try and get along better with ur char! :D" .... Ofc there was a built up for this but yeah... Now I have the DM telling me my char is hard to get along with and I've given up playing "in character" just for the sake of a party that doesn't RP

[@JoeMazzolaTheFirstPersonCook]

Excess is definitely at the core of my character so it worked, and all my friends agreed this well-meaning bleeding heart would work himself to the bone like that. We're definitely allowing ourselves to get deeply emotional this campaign and we're loving it

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

You know your group is messed when reacting to a situation the way a normal person would is actually something that takes justification.

[@M_Alexander]

I play an elderly Owlbear Barbarian with 8 Int whose has the trait that she protects the party as if they were her own cubs but has the flaw that she can become so fixated on "prey" that she's oblivious to anything else. There have been several times where I've done something because it was in-character. Situations have varied from things like eating an uncooperative prisoner during an interrogation, continuing to eat the mysterious "feast" in a cave after the illusion dropped and revealed it to be rotting corpses and offal, chasing an enemy who tried to flee from combat (caught him, too), and relenting that she would absolutely fall for certain kinds of traps especially when there's fresh meat involved

[@nonya_bidness]

All the time, mostly when reminding myself im not playing a self-insert. So it usually comes up when lieing to neutral or friendly npcs as a manipulative character, or something along those lines.

[@AzraelAngel945]

Last time I said “it’s what my character would do,” I caused the apocalypse

[@QueenAleenaFan]

Yes. He was about to face certain death.

[@LocalMaple]

I try to avoid it. But when I’m split on what I might do, I roll the corresponding ability (usually Wisdom) and decide off that. One time, the DM didn’t use fog of war for an online map. My Draconic sorcerer Kobold decided to give the Paladin some aid on one side of the map, while the party handled the other half. I knew what I wanted to do: Booming Blade the enemy I could see from the doorway, realize he’s swarmed with 3 enemies, Quicken Spell Summon Draconic Spirit in the bigger room, and enter one of the three other doors to get the dragon between me and the enemies. I rolled a straight D20. 1-5: I would go down into the door with another invader. 6-15: I go back into the central room to regroup. 16-20: I enter the empty upper room and block the porthole. I rolled a 3. I narrated what I would say as I moved my character, how I closed the door behind me, only to turn around and “WAK!” at the seafolk.

[@RoninDrake3724]

I have one where I didn't necessarily say it, but I definitely felt it in the moment. I was playing as an Aasimar that had a family history of heroes that he was desperate to live up to. Ultimately came across as an inferiority complex while he was saving the world, but it also made him something of a glory hound, constantly chasing great feats to add to the party's story. Well, about halfway through the campaign and with a few players coming and going, I found myself realizing that my character had become the party's leader... and that this was not a great thing at this point in the character's development. Because the druid scouted ahead in a dungeon we were making our way through and said "Hey, we shouldn't go this way. There's a stone giant guarding the pass, so we should find a way to go around." My character barely let them finish before they stepped forward and said "A giant, you say?" and steadfastly refused any path other than fighting the giant. We wound up okay, if a bit bruised while knowing there was a much tougher fight waiting for us further in the dungeon, but there was probably a smarter way of going about that situation. And I got to have a badass moment of that monk using Deflect Missile to reduce a giant's boulder toss almost to 0, so he got what he wanted, I think.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

Bro hit him with an Ultrakill pary.

[@0xPRIMEgs]

damn, 15 goons? That sounds like a sticky situation.

[@kevinskinner4986]

So, our current campaign is set at a school of magic like Hogwarts, and last week, three of our characters and an NPC broke out of the school to summon a devil, the tiefling's ancestor, to get extra credit for the conjuration magic class. The devil's giving out boons to their summoners, trying to ingratiate them to let her out of the summoning circle, turns to Niamh and the insane warlock cheerleader immediately blurts out "Join my cheerleading squad." The other characters facepalm, the devil goes "Wut" and I have to go "It is in fact what she would ask for." Sadly, the duke of hell couldn't fulfill that obligation, but has promised to join in spirit. We'll see what that means, and what shenanigans come out of the insane fey rabbit probably being possessed.

[@Shadowlynk]

I am regularly using my Lizardfolk Fighter's Hungry Jaws as a bonus attack when it's time to unload on an enemy. What can I say, he likes to eat exotic creatures. My DM has a lot of fun spicing this up with extra homebrew effects. Maybe that fishy kuo-toa was extra tasty and I got more temp HP. Maybe that Star Spawn is really weird and the homebrew Wild Magic table's coming out. Maybe the assassins sent specifically to kill our party know ahead of time about the bitey lizard boy and have coated their skin in ingested poison. Sometimes I'm surprised by these curveballs, sometimes I know what I'm getting into. The question is... does my character know? One of our more recent big boss fights was against an Aboleth. Out of character, I know contact with an Aboleth is BAD juju. But my Lizardfolk... he's never seen one before. His last dining foray into undersea creatures AND tentacle-y creatures went well. I had to declare, "Against my personal better judgment, I'm going for the Hungry Jaws. He's going to try to eat some Aboleth!" I missed, thankfully. And then picked up the underwater breathing disease from my regular attacks, which was enough that I decided he wouldn't keep trying to eat it. I REALLY don't want to know what my DM had planned if I had "succeeded". Especially after the DM told me when the fight was over that they were kinda sad I resisted the Enslave effect, because they were totally planning to have my character try to eat the rest of the party. And I can't begrudge the DM for that; it is what my character would do.

[@zacharysieg2305]

I once apologized to my DM for being mean to an innkeeper. (the tldr there is, she didn’t believe us at first when we were robbed by people who were upstanding members of that community. My sorcerer scathingly said, “you small town folk really look out for your own, don’t you?” You can understand how hurtful that could be.) The DM said not to worry about it, and another player chimed in, “Yeah, it’s what your character would do!” And that’s when I realized how powerful that phrase actually is when you don’t say it about your own character.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

No, your character was justified. Ignoring all evidence just because the perpetrator is someone you like is never a good thing.

[@destinydragon8312]

Paladin militant who is normally a strategist, however a group of undead had (what my character thought was) his sister. He kicked in the door and tanked the opportunity attacks scooping her up and running out.

[@wolfskinchanger]

My Oath of Redemption paladin, after convincing a bandit to throw down her weapon (she was the last one still alive of a group that had attacked us), took a moment to heal her a bit and peacefully sent her on her way. He was deeply offended when the artificer shot her in the back and killed her; what followed was an in-character argument over how the artificer had betrayed a truce offered in good faith, and how the paladin was a fool to offer that truce. The DM gave us both Inspiration Points for the performance.

[@culturewarsdiplomacy]

My character was a BBEG that a realms spanning empire, as in Astral Elves would know of him but gave up his power to prove his love to a goddess and to die a hero. His money got stolen by a party member. I the player thought it was someone causing trouble with “that’s my character” type BS and I was mad, my character doesn’t know it’s a part member yet. Turns out he needed the money for a secret mission that’s actually legit. We’ll see if Beezil former emperor of the Beezaal empire , slayer of the dragon’s of purn, ender of the story of Fantasia, conqueror of Hyboria, champion of the games of Westeros will ever find out who stole his money.

[@mkklassicmk3895]

One of my players touched a deadly magic item knowing it would probably kill them.

[@MrRukrio1]

Alvaris, my Armorer Artificer Dragonborn, in regards to him optimizing the fuck out of his kit. dude's a soldier and a tinkerer. of fucking course he's hardwired to try to think and act optimally, soldiers live and die by thier skill on the battlefield!

[@TheChronova]

4:49 goes so fuckin hard

[@BuffaloBaymax2187]

Per my ranger's backstory, he earned the nickname "The Hound" because of his unyeilding and dogged pursuit of his target. He was on this adventure to recover some family heirlooms that had been stolen, and the DM had me meet up with the theif. I fought the thief and was supposed to lose, but due to the dice gods' benevolence it was a pretty evenly matched fight. The DM said I should take the warning and run, but i countered with "as a player I know I should run, but, per my backstory and flaws, my character would see this through until one of them died." I ended up winning the fight and gaining the artifact, a bag of holding and an inspiration

[@klasodeth]

This tends to come up when my character acts in ways that are detrimental to me as a player but are perfectly appropriate for the character when attempting to help the party. Our party was sailing through the underworld. The few landmasses that existed were separated by "the memory of the sea." Special boats were capable of sailing on the memory of the sea, and you could drown in it if you tried to breathe below the water line, but otherwise, the water acted as if it was not there. It could not be seen, felt, heard, touched, or tasted. Falling into it was exactly like falling through air, complete with the sudden, fatal stop at the end. We found one of the special boats (the only one we knew to exist) and set sail for a particular city somewhere in the underworld. Navigation was quite difficult, as the place was shrouded in perpetual darkness. Whenever we found an island to explore, my character absolutely refused to leave the boat behind. For quite a while, we couldn't be sure we could replace the boat if it were lost or stolen, so my character simply wasn't willing to risk leaving it unattended. Even when the DM confirmed the boat would be safe, my character stayed with the boat because there was no in-game reason to believe the boat would be safe. Indeed, there were many reasons to believe otherwise. This resulted in me effectively sitting out multiple sessions while the rest of the party explored. Sure, babysitting a boat off-camera that was in no danger whatsoever wasn't especially fun, but making sure the party couldn't get trapped in the underworld was what my character would do in that situation. Helping others, even if it means I, as the player, don't get to actively participate in a lot of the fun, is absolutely what my character would do.

[@shitpost_status_zero6093]

The first session, my kobold bard seduced a ranger Yuan-ti NPC that went with the party. Nearly got booted off the game for that xD Well, they now have a happily developing relationship and the NPC got some interesting character moments!

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

Wait, your group nearly booted you just for seducing an NPC? Really?

[@shitpost_status_zero6093]

@addison_v_ertisement1678 yeaaaaah, they saw it as me "causing chaos" instead of "playing properly." I like to think they were just salty because they didn't seduce any NPC themselves

[@AutumnflameGaming]

My chef dwarf cleric sampling meat from every creature she kills.

[@greyborg3846]

My paladin/ranger had multiple "last stands" wherein I fully expected him to die holding off an enemy while my allies either escaped or dealt with a different foe. Fortunately my character got some direct assistance from his diety and always managed to survive by the skin of his teeth.

[@Jaeger_Bishop]

My character Zara Kharn, Tabaxi Barbarian with a short fuse and los impulse control. When the contact pointed out the person who killed her parents was in the bar, she finished her mutton, chugged her mead and went guns blazing after her... two others tried to stop her but she had advantage on athletics checks to toss them aside...thankfully she didn't have the low int of a typical Barbarian so she was able to think tactically...and even stopped to let the others catch up when she out paced them, even strategized by convincing a pack of wolves to help out in the fight.. but every move she made was to bring her closer to revenge. Pushing through every con save and source of damage like a furry terminator. This resulted in her not only joining the bad guys to get closer to her target...fact was that she'd nearly taken out her target but the bbeg had an 'escape hatch' and got away, as a result she caught the Tabaxi general's eye, long story short...she's currently married with kids by this general and fights at his side when able, granted she's put her vengeance aside to raise her children...so her motherly instincts have taken hold over her single-minded want for revenge. Still, she's every bit the 'Barbarian wife' and mother you'd expect, just not an idiot is all.

[@hellkitelord8319]

I was playing my half orc cleric named Roki. During a festival there were free sample potions. I was pretty sure these potions were going to have bad side effects, but my character wouldn't have known that. so free sample drank the potion that gave you 100 years worth of wisdom. The side effect was a CON save on a fail I would age 100 years. I failed the save even though my CON was a 16 died session one. This pissed off our barbarian in character as Roki had been one of the few people that he had gotten along with (we both liked to fight). The DM did use my goddess to revive me, but I lost everything I had except my holy symbol. The main reason I pushed to keep my holy symbol is that I wouldn't be able to cast any spells (It was also a gift from my goddess so she wouldn't have taken that). I had played a wizard in a previous campaign (Same DM) were we started as prisoners and no items, and sense we never entered a town that could sell me a new spell book or focus I was practically useless. Didn't help my character got sick due to a bad CON roll (again with the bad CON rolls) that gave me disadvantage with attacks so I was no use to the party at all. That campaign ended due to loosing to many players. I plan to finish the wizard's story one day.

[@Jeffjolow]

It can be a good go to when done right. If I'm playing a druid I usually go with a non materialistic mindset so town sessions are mostly spent feasting or running around as an animal in my wildshape. It's what they would do.

[@lorewalkermaohao4602]

Was doing a dungeon crawler. We very rarely found legendary weapons in it that could be enhanced if talking to the divine through a proxy in town. The rogue did it first (because we found an item that fit him first). But he did it privately with the DM and showed up afterwards with not only an empowered weapon, but also 50k in gems. I should have realized back then. Carry on for couple more months, found a legendary bow that was too good to pass up on, but had to use Bracers of Archery to use it (I was a sorcerer). It wasn't a fit for any of the others in the party. Decided to go talk to the divine proxy because the rogue's item was originally a longsword or something and was changed to a shortsword after his visit. She asks my character to first draw a card from her deck. NOW I connect the dots with the gems the rogue got. I asked the DM how many cards were in that deck: 22. I knew what was going on, and I really really didn't want to go through with it. But then I asked myself "Actually, would my char even know about these, and even if he did, would he recognise the deck?" the answer was no. The DM said I could always back out. "Nah, it's what my character would do" I sighed and drew a card. Void.

[@zwrulez185]

Played a character who, for backstory reasons, was _firmly_ against all forms of necromancy and was determined to completely eradicate its use. She’d made it very clear to the rest of the party that should they act in direct opposition to her beliefs, she would not hesitate to turn on them - for more backstory reasons, she was totally unfamiliar with the concepts of loyalty, friendship, etc. She was the primary spell caster, so this never looked like it was going to be an issue. It was later revealed that another PC was, without him even knowing, actually a form of undead. So, I asked the player and DM if they’d be okay with my character attempting to (re)kill his - and I clarified that I didn’t actually want his character to end up dead. They agreed, and I told the DM separately when I planned to do it, so that it’d be a surprise. To date one of the best role playing I’ve been part of. Highlights: the total surprise on everyone’s faces, getting apprehended by the whole party, the DM pulling a fast one by ambushing us while my character was still tied up, me bursting into genuine tears of frustration as my character struggled to understand why the rest of the party felt so betrayed when she’d been nothing but upfront about her intentions, a bizarrely heartfelt apology scene between me and the other player, my character eventually (for backstory reasons) switching to a School of Necromancy wizard, and her epic redemption arc concluding many sessions later with an implied romance between the necromancer and the zombie. It’s what my character would’ve done.

[@monk3110]

…becoming a necromancer is an odd place for a redemption arc to end 🤣

[@zwrulez185]

@ it made sense in context lol

[@kjj26k]

​@@zwrulez185 If Adventuring Parties were real(Or if our fantasy realms had tv), they would be the only thing on reality tv.

[@jakovsaric9492]

I had mark of hospitality halfling wizard, who never ever took a harmful spell, because he considered it rude He was still extremly useful due to utility and support

[@bricecampbell7349]

In a campaign of pirating, had a character turn away from keeping the unknown treasure of the pirate lord (( we were all once shiprats on said lord ship)) and had him leave because he was desperate to escape pirate life

[@carterfliss1999]

I had a Fate Witch in 7th Sea that faced off against a pair of Porté Hounds (think D&D Blink Dogs, but driven insane by being forced through a Hell portal) alongsode her fellow scoundrels in the sewers of not-Marseilles while searching for a lost violinist. I decided that those were easily the scariest damn things my slightly sheltered Fate Witch had ever seen, and I said that she failed to do anything effective during that fight. I described it as "she screams and throws a knife blindly in its direction before finding a place to run away and hide."

[@nabra97]

I played as a fairly chaotic bard who was wrongly accused of necromancy and had a scar on his face from the backstory. He asked a group member for a duel to give him another scar (so he would look different), which somehow devolved into the whole group fighting against eachother. He did get that scar eventually; now he is level 16 and can literally get rid of it the moment he wants to, but he doesn't (at least not yet). Also there was a situation when my paladin wanted to bit up some werewolves that were threatening us (she didn't want to kill them, just to show that she won't talk to them on their terms), which ended up into a situation I seriously contacted leaving the group over (let's just say I always mention approving of war crimes as a hard line now). When in another campaign we stumbled upon a certain island with wood elves trying to get rid of the local snake elves (that are based on yuan-ti, but they have completely different lore, including that they are born this way and that they aren't inherently evil, even though they aren't the nicest humanoids to hang out with) for some political reasons I don't entirely understand, my position was "I don't care that my character would be curious to figure out what's actually going on there, I'm *against* going anywhere near there unless we will get completely stuck otherwise"

[@cavik977]

Character I recently made secretly works for the Zhentarim. He's been hiding that fact from the other party members in the interest of avoiding inter-party cohesion. Explained to my DM why he would be secretive about it and he agreed.

[@nickcampbell3812]

When I first started, I didn't realize, "it's what my character would do" had a bad connotation due to people using it to justify being jerks because they made a character who is a jerk. I used it because I was new to roleplaying and rather than doing what I would always want to do I would need to think of what my character would want to do. So "it's what my character would do" became the phrase I wouldnuse to make sure I was actually roleplaying rather than playing a self insert. I didn't have to be something bad, just something I wouldn't be as likely to do in real life. Like if my character js more chaotic or lawful than I consider myself, I need to think about situations from their perspective.

[@TheLionVulture]

when my level 1 bard went toe to toe with an olog while away from the party because there was a farm house that *might* have people in it. he was a noble soul. died trying to be a diplomat to the orc.

[@some_Russian_dude]

Playing dungeon of the mad mage we were on a boat when a pc appeared out of nowhere who was a demon btw. She threw her khopesh at him because she dislikes demons as most people do. Her weapon bounced off and landed into the water, i searched for it and couldnt find it losing her first ever weapon. The rest were going to partake in the heroes feast, i did not partake, they insisted in and out of character that it would be best if i do. I simply told them its not what she would do right now, and simply sulked alone while the others enjoyed the feast and the perks. Our dm awarded me with inspiration for staying true to my character even when i knew i was missing out on a nice buff.

[@thegentleman9650]

My character preparing to die, and opening a chest he knew was trapped. He pushed everyone away from the chest, and stuck his infger into the lock. A fang punched through his finger, holding him there as it began to lower. Bit of a tense moment, prepared to cut off his finger then went "Wait. I have Misty Step" and just left xD For his trouble he got a goblet that was like, 200gp

[@slb797]

My paladin (not lawful stupid or even lawful good) had collected mushrooms while we were looking for missing people. Turns out those responsible were myconids (mushroom people). Had one of the persons on a table when we found. They put a knife to his throat. So my character drew his own knife and held it to one of the ordinary mushrooms he collected earlier. It didn’t. Still won the fight and hostage was rescued. Fun fact, we had all forgotten when we were doing peaceful negotiations with the myconid chief that my paladin was wearing the mushroom cap from a myconid he killed. Including the DM

[@salavast1522]

One time I was playing as a "Witch" character. I wanted to make them a subclass of Sorcerer, but went with a variant of the Wizard Class; heavily reliant on material components, and... to get the DM to okay it, a lot of inspiration from the Witches of the Vampire Diaries. (I was wanting something along the lines of the Blue Mages from Final Fantasy, but oh well.). My party was tasked with retrieving an Ancestral Ring that was stolen by a Noble (Quasi-Retired Monster Slayer/His Family Legacy) we... they were hoping to convince to provide supplies for a small band of refugees we were helping. This Noble recognized my character as he was the one responsible for the slaughter of my Coven; not even for the whole "Burn the Witch" motive, he was ticked off at a Rival Noble, and decided to take it out on someone completely unrelated. Prick had a good laugh over the memory, commenting that my eyes "didn't lose their touch of Ichor", and ended with the whole glad everything's water under the bridge now. I'm not one for vengeance, neither is my character, but that was something he just couldn't let slide. After getting the ring back, we stopped at a roadside Inn along the way to wait out a storm. I rolled high enough with a slight of hand check to pretend that I snatched the ring out of what our Rouge was gambling with(DM okayed this kno... believing that the Ring would be safer with me.). I took it with me, retiring for the night then and there, and that was the end of that session. I stayed behind while everyone else left, and before the DM could say anything I told him I was Cursing the ring. I staked it to a pile of sand (Create/Destroy Water) with an iron nail (Hold Person), and put a drop of my own blood (Bane) on the head of the nail; letting it drip down. Calling upon the Spirits of my dead Coven, we cursed the ring to drown whoever would wear it. The next session when we returned the ring, the second he stuffed his fat finger through it, his ever so prideful laugh was cut off by him choaking, and then he started coughing up water; lots of water. As he fell to his knees dying, he managed to look right up to meet my character's eyes who told him "Water under the bridge, right?". This caused so much trouble for us, the refugees, but my character did what he did and regretted nothing.

[@kylethomas9130]

Was playing Rime of the Frostmaiden. One of my fellow players getting 1 shot by an ambush enemy. My Chaotic Good Barbarian, pulled them out of danger, and stabilized them with Healers Kit. Despite the player's protest l, that they wanted their character to die. (They didn't really explain why.) I explained my character would not leave an ally behind, no matter the risk to himself. He may not be the brightest hooded lantern, but raised as a Dragonborn, he would not quit those he saw as comrades.

[@savageboosterstudios]

Detected an alarm spell on a doorknob to the bbeg's hideout, knocked on the door instead. Stuffed said bbeg's corpse into a bag of holding to take somewhere to revive because my character accidentally killed her. Made a kayak out of ice using shape water to paddle across a lake rather than waiting for the boat in town.

[@Rathause]

I will sometimes ask my GM if I can roll at disadvantage or automatically fail a roll in certain circumstances because it feels more authentic to certain characters. I have also deliberately placed myself into dangerous and unnecessary situations because it is genuinely what my character would do. However I will make exceptions if my character’s actions would interfere with or endanger another party member, in those instances I’ll just break character for the sake of everyone having a good time. But if I’m the only one affected by my character’s silly actions then it’s fair game.

[@SheepLiver]

one of my characters is named brick because a brick is the smartest thing that he can outsmart, so when an npc told the party to follow a path and take a right I forced the DM and my party to teach my character how to tell their lefts and rights

[@thorclarke8600]

Tried to make a vanquished flameskull come back as a friend. It did not work, and our long rest was interrupted by a fireball in the middle of camp

[@horridbrain8948]

Reasoned why the cheaper one-bed tavern room would suffice for two characters of our party. "Im a moth, i sleep on the wall "

[@teancrumpets5685]

opted to punch animated statue enemies, instead of using a weapon, i was playing an aging monk, and he decided it was about time he did some condition training.

[@irtehdar2446]

Can't recall having ever actually argued "that's what my character would do" it's just how my main group have always ran things. Most sessions over the years have had one or two gag characters in them. And sometimes we just wind up with characters who for one reason or another have to murder each other and that pesky "end of the world" the GM came up with just have to sit back and wait because this is obviously more important. We have a running joke that 99% of adventurer fatalities is caused by other adventurers. And a bunch of one liners like "a little friendly fire never hurt nobody"

[@joedominguez8064]

Late in a very demon centric campaign, my adorable dummy dwarf ranger (think like 7-8 INT?) was so proud to show the party that he’d learned Abyssal that he read aloud from a massive stone obelisk and accidentally summoned a horde of demons down on us😂 it was memorable and hilarious and somehow we all lived despite the fight happening when we were all nearly dead

[@papierowyszczur9234]

When I used the highest level spell slot on a low level enemy. Basically: my PC wakes up hearing a croak that was both terrified and terrifying (another PC tried to prank other PC and grabbed the NPCs foot), sees a frog cultist of Pathfinder's equivalent of Tiamat, freaks out and uses the most powerful thing they had against it. Poor boggard was instantly killed by a phantasmal killer. Then, I didn't have my best weapon against the priest that led the enemy group.

[@MalloonTarka]

Doing what your character would do is what roleplay _is._ You just have to make sure your character isn't ruining other people's fun.

[@lukewarmmilk6499]

the only times I've done this have been with one specific character named Dean. he's in a zombie ttrpg system made by my friend, and he's a nurse who is extremely anxious and a bit cowardly. a note that's important for this story is that in dean's backstory a close friend of his went out hunting, fired at something, then the firing continued for about 30 minutes (it's implied that a horde of zombies heard the first shot) and his friend never returned to their shack in the woods. anyways, in the oneshot our group was trying to make our way through a zombie infested school and one of the group members, named Charlotte started sprinting down the hallway because there was a line of windows with zombies in the courtyard on the other side. the zombies saw her run past and started slamming against the windows, and the whole group started sprinting after her down the hallway. Dean was lagging behind the group, and as he ran past the window a zombie slammed its' head into the glass and shattered it. since Dean's deathly afraid of the zombies, I rolled to see if he could muffle a scream. thankfully he succeeded, but the glass breaking alerted a type of special infected that moves like a spider and hunts for sport, and the whole group heard it crashing through the vents above us chasing us. as this happened, a party member named Andrew readied a shotgun at the end of the hallway, waiting for and intending to shoot the special infected. when Dean saw he had a gun ready, he frantically begged Andrew to put the gun away and continue running (because he fears using guns due to his past friend). they stood arguing for just a moment, which let the spider infected get directly above us in a vent opening. it sat there for just a moment, which allowed Charlotte (who was infected, but the rest of the group didn't know at the time) to jump in and speak with the infected. in the system there's a class that starts infected and can speak to zombies, but is on a timer before they inevitably die to the infection, so Charlotte fully intended to die so that we could get out. there's more to us getting out of that situation, but for the sake of brevity I'll leave it at that. I also want to say that the rest of the party was okay with me starting that mini argument. they actually really liked the moment because it added A LOT of tension to the scene as Dean and Andrew were already partially established to butt heads with each other because of Andrew wanting to do everything on his own to keep everyone else safe and generally having an opposite personality/specialization to Dean. if you're interested in the rest of the story and seeing it played out in real time, there should be a video of the oneshot coming soon to my friend's channel, Read the Rollbook.

[@Godzillawolf1]

My Aarakocra Grave Cleric Acias is a former undertaker and gravekeeper who, due to having to spend nearly all her time underground in the Cave of the Beyond, is kinda uncanny valley to the rest of her kind, as they have a racial claustrophobia. As such, she's very self-conscious of her wings being seen, as it disturbed her fellow Aarakocra to see her that way, so she hides them under a cloak. So because of that, I spent the entire prologue section of the campaign not flying ONCE, even in instances it probably would've been beneficial, because that's what the incharacter thing for her to do would be. She actually stayed like this for the entire first half of the campaign, rarely using her wings at all, and her second outfit dropping the cloak and proudly displaying her wings was the result of character development, but it was fun to RP an Aarakocra who rarely flies. She also once used the paladin's backpack as a nest for a dragon egg we rescued, complete with sitting on it...because bird. And also being a bit angry the Paladin ignored the nice nest she built the egg.

[@helheimrgaming2547]

While on a strath operation as my dragonborn barbarian, I rolled well enough on my DM’s divine intervention roll to get a prayer heard by Bahamut. Alter Self on myself to change my appearance from bronze dragonborn to blue dragonborn (Tyranny of Dragons in Dragon Cult territory, blended better). Our monk decided to get into a fight club and defeated the previous champion. My hulking *blue* dragonborn would’ve anticipated being basically expected to join, given his build. So next session started with the fight. No magic or magic weapons, and we orchestrated a really cool move where the monk “won” and my barbarian succeeded a deception roll to deceive the crowd into believing the monk won. In exchange I got all the winnings.

[@benpepin7872]

My Aarakocra Warlock basically works preserving the cycle of life and death, from the death side. He's technically a necromancer but raises no dead (one of his tenets is the "Sanctity of the corpse", that a dead body is like a decommissioned ship, it's retired, you don't press it back into service). We're meeting with a huge council of mages who have locked themselves in a cycle of reincarnation. They're telling our Kobold Wizard (Whom my character is very protective of) they have evidence his mentor has something valuable to them, and he can either convince him to give it up if they have it, or their agents will kill him and search his study for it instead. My character was already not fond of the reincarnation thing as a defiance of the cycle, but this was the last straw. He cut off the councilperson running proceedings to go on a long tirade about how disgusted he was, how their ability to sidestep death had numbed them to the value of lives not their own, and may his patron take him from this world the instant he seems to be anything like them. They were prepared to kill over a 51% chance of getting something they wanted, for the planes' sake! The rant did work to shake them into reconsidering, but for a second I thought "It's what my character would do" was going to get us all killed. Thankfully no one, player or character, disagreed with IWMCWD. It was also the inspiration for one of my character's primary fears; living so long (he's already far older than his kind are supposed to be in ideal situations) that he starts losing his compassion for the lives he protects or takes.

[@alexmiller1800]

There was one game where I really considered going with the “it’s what my character would do” route. It was a Wild West themed campaign and I was playing a Neutral Evil Warlock themed like an outlaw gunslinger. Think Billy The Kid makes a deal with a devil. Our Party wound up working for a company making experimental weapons and vehicles using mysterious, otherworldly power sources. We discovered that these power sources were actually powerful devils, demons, celestials, and fey creatures trapped within stone tablets. Now, my character’s patron was a powerful fiend who wished to escape imprisonment after a wizard sealed his soul into a cowboy hat and this creature had directed my character towards the party in the first place, so once we had one of these tablets (one that radiated powerful demonic energy I might add), I figured that my character may try to take the tablet and use it to free his patron to hold up his end of the bargain. I strongly considered breaking into my ally’s room and stealing this tablet to release my patron, but decided not to because I lacked the spell slots to break in and either get out without being caught or survive being caught (breaking into the room shared by the Barbarian and Wizard is a great way to get your character killed). I also didn’t want to completely ruin the dm’s plans and derail the game. In retrospect, I probably could have talked with the dm about potentially turning my character into an enemy of the party and trying to release my patron using the tablets. It would have made for one hell of a final fight, and honestly, I think the dm would have been into it and would have modified his plans to factor in the chance that I pulled this off. But, I backed off and played my character a little less evil than I wanted to for the sake of the party and the game. No point in taking away someone else’s fun just to play my character accurately. He was still awesome and 80% true to my original idea even if I couldn’t push him from an evil ally to a full blown villain. Plus, this campaign was more like a miniseries than a campaign. We only had maybe 12 sessions total. It was real short, and the dm made it clear from the start that this was an experiment on his end and that he wanted to keep it short and sweet, so there wasn’t a lot of time for me to bring up new ideas or for the dm to revamp the game for one player.

[@PlutopianSociety]

I was playing as a lawful good paladin and I refused payment for the opening goblin quest and insisted on sticking around to help rebuild the town. She died only a couple sessions later from trying to hold back a whole bunch of bad guys by herself instead of running away to get the rest of the party. It was a lot of fun. (I later found out that the dm had to almost entirely remake the campaign because I refused to leave the starting town. It turns out that trying to tell an adventure story is a lot harder when the character choice that gets committed to the hardest is "I'm not going to go on an adventure" lol)

[@Alabenson]

I was playing a game at a convention, and my character charged straight into the mouth of a cave housing several goblins as soon as he saw an opponent. When it was pointed out that this was an extremely foolhardy thing to do, I pointed out that my character was a half-orc barbarian with 7 Int.

[@crimsonflare9362]

i have a its what my character would. i had a changling bard in curse of strahd, and she was tired of strahd messaging with us, so she tried to slap him. she has an 8 in strength, so it wouldn't have done anything to him it had hit, but she died a couple sessions later. she was mostly support, so i forgot she had a cross bow and she died alone in limbo to an avatar of death thanks to a deck of many things.

[@evannewman3997]

Personally? I almost ended up shooting another party member after they unexpectedly came back to life. They had just been through a battle where they got (among other things, but that's a whole different story), thrown into a deep pit, burned in a massive explosion, crushed with a boulder, and used their last bit of strength to stab the BBEG. They were, by all accounts, dead. We were bringing the body back to base, and the DM described how his body started healing itself. Long story short, in this campaign, a dead body starting to move like that is usually a zombie, and given what he had been fighting at the time, it was certain. I knew what was going on, but my character wouldn't. I actually turned to the other player and said "crap, I'm pretty sure my character has every reason to shoot yours" Luckily, I managed a good enough perception roll to notice the difference between what was happening and the usual signs of zombie infection, so nobody ended up getting shot, but it was a very near thing.

[@blue-eyesdepresseddragon3753]

I usually ask the other players if I'm going to do something dumb. Like, say, my knowledge obsessed wizard seeing an artifact that would assist her studies. What my character would do is instantly go for it, disregarding safety, perhaps endangering the party. I will ask them if they're willing to deal witht hat, or if i could sacrifice character consistency with fun gamefeel

[@ArawnNox]

I've had to unironically say it once. In Rogue Trader you get assigned traits based off your Origin choices during character creation. I ended up with "Jealous Freedom" as part of my character's origin. The entry states: "Having endured captivity once, you have no intention of doing so again. You react violently towards the prospect of imprisonment or loss of your freedom." During the game we were surrounded by a group of Arbites (40K Cops) and ordered to surrender. I had to say the line "It's what my character would do." Before pulling a gun and starting a fight. Fortunately this wasn't one of those "The GM wants to capture the party" situations (Though I'm sure he would have rolled with it if we had surrendered), so it didn't disrupt anything and everyone else was down for a scrap.