Timeline for Are there rules for torture?
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| Jan 8, 2015 at 0:41 | vote | accept | xenoterracide | ||
| Jan 7, 2015 at 13:16 | comment | added | xenoterracide | or it's less effective because... "oh no, you're cut me... boo hoo..." since, you know, vampires don't really need most of their body. whether torture realistically works, imho, is not necessarily the most interesting way to apply it in a story. We got a pretty good scene out of it. | |
| Jan 7, 2015 at 13:13 | comment | added | Erik | Realistically speaking, torture is going to break the mind of the victim and nothing useful will come out after. It's known to be a terrible way to useful obtaining information. I'm not sure if it'd be any different with a vampire. Probably the vampire will simply confess to everything the PCs demand, regardless of whether it actually did any of those things. | |
| Jan 7, 2015 at 12:09 | comment | added | xenoterracide | @MatthewNajmon I think the benefit of using the Doors system as I've described is you could decide whether torture would be an effective motivator for the individual... because by default it would knock down doors, but then the individual would become hostile and you wouldn't be able to get further. | |
| Jan 6, 2015 at 15:34 | comment | added | Matthew Najmon | If you're going for information, torture should give penalties, not bonuses. Torture is great for propaganda purposes (especially for getting confessions, since a propagandist doesn't need them to be true, or ev to know if they're true or not), and about as useful for punishment/revenge as those things could be said to be in any case, but for getting accurate information about anything, it makes things far, far worse, not better. | |
| Jan 6, 2015 at 5:12 | answer | added | xenoterracide | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 13:16 | answer | added | Jadasc | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Jan 3, 2015 at 5:38 | history | asked | xenoterracide | CC BY-SA 3.0 |