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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 7616150" data-attributes="member: 6879661">This is a complicated issue and not as simple as the OP makes out in article. Firstly the women accused of being witches were being accused of imaginary crimes by people who had a vested interest in obtaining a specific result... a confession or testimony against others.That isn’t the same as wanting to know how many men are stationed at Castle Black, where there the individual is not being punished because the torturer has an agenda beyond getting truthful information. Where information can be acted on quickly and verified then it is effective... for instance Jack Bauer’s case of where is the nuke hidden. 30 minutes after extracting this information it can be verified and the torture continue if found to be untrue.What a DM needs to do to make these situations become unnecessary (if that’s what they want to do) is make the information not easily verifiable and have clear goals and reasons why the victim wouldn’t just spill the truth.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 7616150, member: 6879661"] This is a complicated issue and not as simple as the OP makes out in article. Firstly the women accused of being witches were being accused of imaginary crimes by people who had a vested interest in obtaining a specific result... a confession or testimony against others. That isn’t the same as wanting to know how many men are stationed at Castle Black, where there the individual is not being punished because the torturer has an agenda beyond getting truthful information. Where information can be acted on quickly and verified then it is effective... for instance Jack Bauer’s case of where is the nuke hidden. 30 minutes after extracting this information it can be verified and the torture continue if found to be untrue. What a DM needs to do to make these situations become unnecessary (if that’s what they want to do) is make the information not easily verifiable and have clear goals and reasons why the victim wouldn’t just spill the truth. [/QUOTE]

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