Have any of your games ever taken your character to prison? What happened?

Have any of your games ever taken your character to prison? What happened?

Yeah. Super heavy railroading. Basically the warlock tried to sell a deed that ended up being fake. He didnt know that. Noone in town saw me with them but i muat have known where he was, when i walked out of a shop on my own. I even pointed the guards in the right direction to find him. I got arrested anyways. I broke out dressed as a guard and went to get my gear back. And a random prisoner knew i wasnt a guard and somehow called for the guards to stop me. Luckily the dmnpc came out of no where to save the day by getting us pardoned just becasue he said we were innocent and killed the guy who accused us by throwing himinto a pocket dimension where he keeps t he taarasque as a personal garbage disposal.
>MY SALT KNOWS NO BOUNDS

One was Session 1 railroading to get the party together. The other was intentional so that our rogue could sneak into the keep which he managed to poison all the food there and kill off most of the guard as we incited riots throughout the city.

Not prison, but my Mage was stuck in the tank for 24 hours once because he smartmouthed a Cop.

Then there was the time my Super-Criminal had to get himself arrested to break someone out of Prison. Got himself arrested on charges of aggravated assault, plead guilty, then Hulked out and broke down a few walls escaping.

Dang, you've got me beat. Similar situation, but way less... blatant? Anyway, the party summoner is breaking into a jeweler's store at midnight. He's breaking into a side-window with no guards in sight, using a modified summon that looks nothing like what he normally summons in public. A guard rolls a 17, so that obviously meant that he and his partner charge down the street to apprehend the criminal scum that he had no line of sight to. Summoner hears footsteps, ducks around a corner and moves, and lets the guards see the monster disappear. So obviously their only course of action is to arrest the summoner for knowing magic, despite the town practically being under constant goblin attacks, sneaky goblins that like to break into people's houses, sneaky infiltrating goblins some of which know magic like invisibility! So now the summoner is suspect number 1, and I'm suspect number 2 because I'm a wizard, but let's ignore the two clerics, the ranger, the wizard, and the druid npc's we've met in town. (Two of which were also travelers, so no excuse there.) Now we're asked to summon something. We do, and they look nothing like the monster that was seen, but the guard captain has a "gut feeling" so the summoner is arrested anyway.

The summoner and I call it there and start our own game the next week. The adventure we left was pre-made and we had only played one session, so the summoner just DMs it himself. Turns out the jeweler's shop was supposed to be an easy mark: no locked doors or windows, low DC locks on the display cases and safe, owner is a heavy sleeper, etc.

Magical realm happened, OP. Magical realm happened.

I like how we tell how mad you got at the end by how your typing degrades.

>playing rogue in pirate gang
>everyone is human with some weird ass ability
>got water breathing and swim speed 70ft
>ship is attacked in middle of night
>three party members down in 2 rounds
>dm describes them being drug down with nets
>fuck that, jump overboard and swim down to hide so I can sneak aboard their ship
>sneak on, have most my gear
>murder stab two watching prisoners after waiting 5 days to learn their schedule
>attempt to pick locks after slathering them in grease and barring door
>cutscene knocked out as captain busts in and nearly cuts me in half, taking my max hp-1 in damage and get told I pass out from shock
>finally awake, I immediately pick the locks
>dm is pissed, demands to see my character
>hrumphs for 10 minutes, starts to erase things
>Tell him that if my numbers are changed, I am leaving
>gets up, tells us that he no longer wants to run

Why do some dms hinge their entire campaigns on making players powerless/captured with no escape beyond what he planned?

From The Alexandrian

>In 26 years of play, I have literally never seen PCs voluntarily surrender. Admittedly, beyond a certain point my villains largely stopped asking.

>The only time I’ve had PCs taken prisoner is because they’d been beaten into unconsciousness. There was one incident about 3 years ago where a single PC got separated from the rest of the party and was captured (the rest of the party ended up using a wish spell to rescue her). The previous incident was about 4 years before that where all but one of the PCs were captured (the other PC was somewhere else at the time that the rest of the party was beaten unconscious).

>Recently, I was running Eternal Lies, a published campaign which, on two occasions, expected (but didn’t require) the PCs to be captured. In one case, the PCs simply avoided the entire situation by staying three steps ahead of the bad guys. In the other, the NPCs whose “vast numbers” were supposed to make them surrender got hosed down in a hail of machine gun fire before they had a chance to even open their mouths and demand the white flag.

>There was one group about 4 years ago who briefly discussed surrendering because they were near death and had been cut off from the surface by a half dozen giants and an entire platoon of orcs. They decided that it made more sense to literally cut their own heads off so that the elven wizard could stick them in a bag of holding, turn invisible, and fly them out to get resurrected. (Surprisingly, that worked out for all but one of them.)

>Whenever I see a published adventure that requires the PCs to surrender, I take it as a very strong indication that the product was never playtested. (In my more cynical moments, it also makes me suspicious that the author has never actually played an RPG.)

I agree.

The only time I saw a decent captured scenario was in Red Hand Of Doom, where it is a contingency in case they decide to fight a horde of 10,000+ with dragon and giant support at level 5. Even in that, they wanted to pc to escape at every opportunity and suggest letting the player decide if they want to immediately change characters if they see they can not escape after an amount of time.