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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 2893334" data-attributes="member: 1331">If he carries the body away, I'd apply a very hefty circumstance penalty for disturbing the scene. There's bound to be evidence which doesn't come along, like bloodstains, or footprints, or body's severed limb. Also, even if the PC does happen to find all the bits of the corpse, it's bound to be damaged even more by rattling around in someone's backpack for the rest of the morning. I'd say -10 or -15 sounds like a decent penalty to apply.Come to think of it, feel free to apply other circumstance penalties ahead of time. Unless the body is fresh or magically preserved, decay will have taken its toll, and it's bound to have been munched by animals and insects and any nearby monsters. (It's hard to spot poison damage when you're looking at a pile of gnawed bones.) Off the top of my head let's say -2 if the body is a day old, -4 if it's a week, and -6 for a month. Remember that circumstance modifiers from different sources do stack.You'd know whether you found the cause, but you wouldn't know why not. Further investigation might not help. Maybe the body has bite marks that could be from either the fatal wound or hungry scavengers, or maybe it has broken ribs that could be from a warhammer or from falling down onto an uneven surface. Once you realize you can't tell the difference, staring at the body some more isn't going to make more evidence appear.</blockquote>