Ok I searched this section about Death(here only went 3 pages out of 66 to see nothing noteworthy), Feint, Pretend, Fake. Nothing came about the matter I want to suggest/ discuss.
Imagine, a scalped naked cropse, you approach it moves and engages in combat with you.
Or in a battle, pretend to fall off from a punch or thrust and later flee or surprise your opponent. (dangerous move indeed, but if done right in the heat of battle) Or pretend to be knocked since you have 5 stats overall, just to surprise later your opponent when he comes with his murderer.
There would be myriads of ways to try and make various traps by feinting that you are dead and maybe more stories in HoB
And lets not forget about the overall paranoia it adds to the game
Ok we know and saw that in most movies some fainted their death, but come, you said a scalped cropse? Well let me tell you that there was once a ronin who to get revenge upon his master, he had to sting himself allover with nettles, to turn red later and unrecognized, he endured that just to try to revenge.
About scalping, I don’t know this site says that some actually survived scalping back then.
https://www.quora.com/Did-anyone-survive-a-scalping-How
And who didn't saw the movie 127 hours based on real events and to think that someone actually chipped off his hand and endured all that.
Of course it should not be that easy like learning chilidish things in tutorial, it could be a little harder then waste skill aka arson and also lower in half your stats when you actually scalp yourself and have it permanent. Or you could gain insanity two times faster.
I don’t know as about how easy it is to get or what penalty you inflict upon yourself is for JC to decide or majority of ppl, but the questions remains, would it add a flavour to the game?