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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8007567" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>One approach - put yourself in the perspective of the villain and consider what they know. Then use that information to formulate a plan - and if the PCs can easily circumnavigate it, let them. They're heroes. They should win the day.</p><p></p><p>If this is a situation in which you want them to fail/struggle, the best options are to:</p><p></p><p>1.) Have multiple parties refuse to answer questions as it invades their privacy.</p><p>2.) Make sure the one being interrogated is not going to lie. If they've been deceived by someone else, they may be saying that is false without knowing it - which does not trigger detection. </p><p>3.) The Glibness spell is 8th level, but it is exactly what someone needing to tell a believable lie might rely upon. I do not understand why it is 8th level - seems more like a 4th level spell to me. Modify Memory is 5th level and can also be used to hide lies.</p><p>4.) If a creature enters the circle and then replaces themself with an illusion while the spell is in effect, the illusion can lie without detection.</p><p>5.) Sometimes a creature in magical disguise can give all the right answers.</p><p>6.) Double lies. The PCs ask the questions and the target is lying - and they discover that the being under questioning kidnapped the real person that was to be interrogated! They recover the victim - and may not have cause to resume the questioning even though the victim hired the bad guy through an intermediary to kidnap the victim and take their place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 8007567, member: 2629"] One approach - put yourself in the perspective of the villain and consider what they know. Then use that information to formulate a plan - and if the PCs can easily circumnavigate it, let them. They're heroes. They should win the day. If this is a situation in which you want them to fail/struggle, the best options are to: 1.) Have multiple parties refuse to answer questions as it invades their privacy. 2.) Make sure the one being interrogated is not going to lie. If they've been deceived by someone else, they may be saying that is false without knowing it - which does not trigger detection. 3.) The Glibness spell is 8th level, but it is exactly what someone needing to tell a believable lie might rely upon. I do not understand why it is 8th level - seems more like a 4th level spell to me. Modify Memory is 5th level and can also be used to hide lies. 4.) If a creature enters the circle and then replaces themself with an illusion while the spell is in effect, the illusion can lie without detection. 5.) Sometimes a creature in magical disguise can give all the right answers. 6.) Double lies. The PCs ask the questions and the target is lying - and they discover that the being under questioning kidnapped the real person that was to be interrogated! They recover the victim - and may not have cause to resume the questioning even though the victim hired the bad guy through an intermediary to kidnap the victim and take their place. [/QUOTE]
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