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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 1491869" data-attributes="member: 317">A couple nasty ideas:1) Place a PC on top of a hollowed out stone altar with a hole in the roof of the altar.  Position the PC such that his stomach is over the hole and chain him in place so he cannot move.  Then you release the starving rats into the hollow chamber below the PC.  Rats smell fresh flesh, and begin to climb up to the PC to knaw on his stomach, arm, or whatever is over the hole.  This torture was actually used in the middle ages, usually with the end result that the rats ate through the victim's belly and went into the body cavity, eating as they went.  A really gruesome way to die.2) Systematically break bones in the PCs body, then set them badly or in warped positions and have the injury healed.  Hey, if the good guys have healing, the baddies can use it too for torture.  Plus, to repair the damage done, the PC has to have the bones re-broken and set correctly.3) This one is guaranteed to freak out your spellcasters.  Cut out their tongues, break their fingers, then proceed to torture them normally.  Once the spellcaster seems about ready to talk, have another spellcaster use ESP or other thought reading spell to extract the info.</blockquote>