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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 9832958" data-attributes="member: 1465">Well, if they are suspicious after a roll, it means the mystery is achieved!And if they're overconfident on a high result, that's ok (the character knows they did their best ever) but only until when the DC was even higher and they are in for a nice surprise!Just don't tell them the DC.I don't usually give false information on failure, but rather no information. This is at least the case when information is "one piece". One option here to give them a single plain wrong answer could be to decide in advance a middle-range "death number" which, if it happens to be the natural dice roll, results in a lie.For example, you could decide that the "natural 13" is the death number. Rolls below DC give no information, rolls above DC gives correct information, but neither apply on a natural 13 which instead give false information. Change the death number each time, but keep it fairly in the 10-15 range.When information is complex, I may use "degrees of success" on a check so that I give them partial information depending on the result. In this case it is also easy to swap one or more of the "information pieces" into a lie, so that the results are mixed.</blockquote>