Have you ever played a married character?

200 sons and daughters.

Yes. It did not work out well.

Does it count if my character was mentally ill and THOUGHT they were married?

And give my DM a weapon to use against me? HA.

My wizard right now was married to a Human a long time ago. It worked out really well, and he knew what he was getting into beforehand so he's happy to see his descendants more than he's sad that he'll outlive them.

It hasn't come up in the plot yet, but it's the reason why he treats the party so well. Even though they don't really understand him, they remind him of his children and grandchildren.

Yes. its D&D, I'm playing an ex monk who has a possibly murdered husband. I find that its a really easy way to get out of the normal sexy shenanigans people tend to want to pull female characters into. I can just be like "Nope! My character is married."

played a character whose wife had been killed and he had his mind wiped to forget her. his daughter was a DMPC sidekick, and his son was a palidin seeking to bring me to justice because he blamed me for my wife's death, and not the demon that killed her.

Twice, when I was younger. Both times I was playing a paladin, and both times it became leverage for a "paladin falls" situation.

1 (in college 3.x) - 1st session: DM asks "You're married and have you had sex with your wife?" I respond with yes, and DM says "then your paladin falls". See, my DM was (unbeknownst to me) an *actual* radical feminist. She was of the opinion that women cannot actually consent to sex with men, because since men are generally stronger, there was an inherent power imbalance and potential for coersion, therefore consent couldn't actually be genuinely given, since consent under threat or implied threat isn't actually consent. Since sex without consent was automatically rape, and rape is an Evil act, the paladin had committed an Evil act and fell.

2 (High school AD&D) - High level paladin was married to another high-level adventurer w/2 kids. Went on "come out of retirement to save the multiverse" plot. When I came back (~2yrs later), I came back to an evil empire encompassing my lands. Turns out while I was gone, savage humanoids (don't recall which) had attacked our lands and killed the kids. Wife went insane-ish, started a VERY successful, "if you aren't with us you're against us" campaign of genocide against the humanoids in revenge ("why do we put up with these animals?"). It then expanded to everyone that got in her way or tried to stop her. The BBEG was my Paladin's wife. I got to our old castle, confronted her, and after a solid hour of intense RP trying to change her mind, ended up with the choices of:

>kill the love of your life to end the threat to the world (by definition betrays your oath of marriage and mutual defense and fall)
>join the love of your life in her campaign to rid of the world of these savages and kill anyone who would stop you (by definition evil since, well, she went full Saruman, and fall)
>kill self to not have to make a choice (and be damned since suicide was against paladin religion)

>1st session: DM asks "You're married and have you had sex with your wife?" I respond with yes, and DM says "then your paladin falls".
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the 2nd one isn't so bad
with a heavy heart sigh look her in the eye and ask
"what do you call a woman who has lost 90% of her intelligence?"
with all the gravitas you can muster utter "Divorced!" kill wife, fall for right reasons

I'd also accept

I gave you a engagement ring,
you're wearing the wedding ring,
and now for the suffer-ring!