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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 1262257" data-attributes="member: 1225">How does interrogating the murderer get you any closer to proving he did it, if he didn't leave any clues that he knows about? Sure, an extremely intensive interrogation might trip him up or force him to fess up -- but extremely intensive interrogations have been known to end up with innocent people confessing to things they didn't do, just to get out of the interrogation (even without torture, this apparently happens). Knowing may be half the battle, but it's still only half.Don't forget modify memory, either. It would probably only take one very public, very messy mistake to get the PCs in very deep trouble, or at least get them to think twice about relying on detect thoughts. Have a bard modify someone important's kid's memory, to make them remember committing the crime, and arrange to get the PCs to scan the kid's memory. Smart criminals can be just as crafty as the PCs, and it's those guys that people need experts like a group of PCs to catch.</blockquote>