Last night, one of our newer players (who had just gone through two other characters that just barely managed to avoid being murdered by the party) had a new character...
Every single person at the table, including a random bystander watching us play, EVEN INCLUDING HIMSELF, inflicted grievous bodily harm on the guy- by what seemed to be complete accident.
"But it's so much fun to watch them constantly self-destruct in slow motion, but somehow manage to succeed despite themselves." That sums up all of my tabletop RP experiences. Every single one, I think.