Handling prisoners

[Matafuego]

The iron golem is a pretty good idea (for evil npcs I guess..)
I've used manacles before and even some Anti-Magic manacles (though I guess they were made up and had no backup...).
The dexterity poison (or for that matter any other non-con poison, I'd prefer any mental poison) is a great idea.
And regarding the full plate armor I had a friend who claimed the best way to beat up a monk was to cast a "Full Plate Spell" so he could not use any of his abilities, guess it works good on wizards too

 

[Sammael]

I folded Use Rope into Sleight of Hand IMC. That waz the party rogue actually has a chance of tying someone up...

 

[BlackMoria]

Our group is rather fond of using Woodlands Prison, a 4th level spell from Arcana Unearthed.

In brief, the prisoner is placed in a form of stasis in a coccon amid plants for an indefinite period of time (can be released at any time by the spell caster) and can be mentally questioned for 1 hour each day without the necessity of releasing the prisoner.

 

[Voadam]

Never been an issue for me. I often shout out "Surrender!" to my sentient enemies, but so far nobody ever has. The few I tried to subdue got away or still took enough real damage to die.

Dire warnings with offers of better alternatives have worked though. In freeing some slaves two who were rogue thieves who wanted to bolt I warned them about guards outside the door and they decided they wanted to stick with me instead after the warning, particularly when I said I had travel magic that could get us all out.

 

[Spatula]

Manacles.

The problem with use rope is that it's a lot easier in real life to tie someone up than it is to escape. In the game, you can take 20 on both use rope and escape artist, which equalizes things too much. I think that an ad hoc circumstance bonus of +10 or so should be added to people taking their time with use rope if they have 5+ ranks.

Manacles have the same Escape Artist DC as rope bonds tied by someone with no skill ranks and a 10 Dex (providing the tier takes his time):

Restraint ----------------- Escape Artist DC
Ropes --------------------- Binder’s Use Rope check at +10
Manacles ------------------ 30