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<blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 2001511" data-attributes="member: 7451">&quot;Are you made of poison&quot;-- Any really inane question asked during interrogation.Origin: Once, my players were attacked by aerial demons, and managed to capture one. The only problem was that the demon only spoke Abyssal, no-one in the party spoke Abyssal, and since it wasn't tanar'ri, it had no telepathy. Bowen (see pulling a Bowen), playing a ravenous lizardman, first tried to communicate with it in &quot;the universal language of mathematics&quot;, then decided that the only thing he wanted to know was whether or not the demon was edible. This consisted of him asking, repeatedly, loudly and slowly, &quot;Are you made of poison?&quot; Which soon stuck.Fingertip semaphore -- Any obvious cheat, usually made to circumvent DM whims.Origin: Same campaign, a few months later. The party, traveling through the desert, came upon a cursed city, filled with the undead, that was permanently affected by a silence spell. While they were exploring the silent city, two of the players start talking to each other, conveying information in-game. I ask how, exactly, they're talking in a silent city, and one of them responds that they both know &quot;fingertip semaphore&quot;. So, from that day, any cheats can be explained away by, &quot;oh, he knows fingertip semaphore&quot;.Demiurge out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="demiurge1138, post: 2001511, member: 7451"] "Are you made of poison"-- Any really inane question asked during interrogation. Origin: Once, my players were attacked by aerial demons, and managed to capture one. The only problem was that the demon only spoke Abyssal, no-one in the party spoke Abyssal, and since it wasn't tanar'ri, it had no telepathy. Bowen (see pulling a Bowen), playing a ravenous lizardman, first tried to communicate with it in "the universal language of mathematics", then decided that the only thing he wanted to know was whether or not the demon was edible. This consisted of him asking, repeatedly, loudly and slowly, "Are you made of poison?" Which soon stuck. Fingertip semaphore -- Any obvious cheat, usually made to circumvent DM whims. Origin: Same campaign, a few months later. The party, traveling through the desert, came upon a cursed city, filled with the undead, that was permanently affected by a silence spell. While they were exploring the silent city, two of the players start talking to each other, conveying information in-game. I ask how, exactly, they're talking in a silent city, and one of them responds that they both know "fingertip semaphore". So, from that day, any cheats can be explained away by, "oh, he knows fingertip semaphore". Demiurge out. [/QUOTE]

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