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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2708155" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>Remember, criminals will have some vague idea of how investigative techniques work.</p><p></p><p>Before fingerprinting was common, nobody needed to wear gloves when they killed someone. Before forensic ballistics could match a bullet to a gun, it wasn't as necessary to ensure that your murder weapon could not be found.</p><p></p><p>Criminals who are putting some thought into a murder will take steps to avoid Speak With Dead and Scrying. For Speak With Dead, the obvious first step is to destroy the body, or at least the head. Alternatives would be to ensure that the victim cannot identify you even after they're killed - striking unseen, or using illusions to mask one's identity, or using Modify Memory to implant a false scene just before landing the final blow.</p><p></p><p>Scrying, Object Reading, and the like mean that it's important the murder weapon is not recovered, since it is a link back to its owner.</p><p></p><p>Take a look at an average episode of CSI. If there's a nice obvious bloody knife with a suspect's fingerprints on it that turns up in the first ten minutes, one can almost guarantee that the suspect isn't the killer. The 'easy answers' are either blocked (no fingerprints, no witnesses, etc), red herrings (the fingerprints have another explanation), or frames (the fingerprints were planted by the real killer). It takes an esoteric answer to crack the case - something the killer overlooked.</p><p></p><p>In D&D, there's <em>plenty</em> for a killer to overlook. How many murderers think to take precautions against the investigators calling in a druid to cast Stone Tell and get a rock's-eye view of the incident?</p><p></p><p>-Hyp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 2708155, member: 1656"] Remember, criminals will have some vague idea of how investigative techniques work. Before fingerprinting was common, nobody needed to wear gloves when they killed someone. Before forensic ballistics could match a bullet to a gun, it wasn't as necessary to ensure that your murder weapon could not be found. Criminals who are putting some thought into a murder will take steps to avoid Speak With Dead and Scrying. For Speak With Dead, the obvious first step is to destroy the body, or at least the head. Alternatives would be to ensure that the victim cannot identify you even after they're killed - striking unseen, or using illusions to mask one's identity, or using Modify Memory to implant a false scene just before landing the final blow. Scrying, Object Reading, and the like mean that it's important the murder weapon is not recovered, since it is a link back to its owner. Take a look at an average episode of CSI. If there's a nice obvious bloody knife with a suspect's fingerprints on it that turns up in the first ten minutes, one can almost guarantee that the suspect isn't the killer. The 'easy answers' are either blocked (no fingerprints, no witnesses, etc), red herrings (the fingerprints have another explanation), or frames (the fingerprints were planted by the real killer). It takes an esoteric answer to crack the case - something the killer overlooked. In D&D, there's [i]plenty[/i] for a killer to overlook. How many murderers think to take precautions against the investigators calling in a druid to cast Stone Tell and get a rock's-eye view of the incident? -Hyp. [/QUOTE]
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