![]() Rattling off inane details "I know that he wore a red shirt this morning. for 8 hours without discussing details would be one approach. "Tell us everything you know about your boss!" "I know where he is. Yeah, treating Suggestion like Wish, where enemies will attempt to contort the spirit of the request while complying with the letter of it, is a better approach than having the DM outright refuse to allow the player to use a spell that they've taken the time to prepare and cast. the DM however needs to be even more creative in their responses and that can be an issue since not everyone can do “creative on demand” well. So, I don’t have a problem with creative uses of suggestion. ![]() though the choice of words from the creature can be misleading. Suggestion is mult purpose and as has been suggested the wording can be interpreted in a number of ways. Zone of truth informs you of which rounds they have to tell the truth and which they don’t. It could still be very useful, in combination with more mundane interrogation techniques like intimidation or persuasion, plus some compelling role play. It just doesn't have the power to force someone to reveal everything you might want to hear. I would argue it will almost never achieve better results in an interrogation than Zone of Truth, also 2nd level but specialized for only interrogation-type situations. He wasn't co-operative so we casted suggestion and said "Answer all of our questions truthfully". After we freed them we found out that the guy i am talking about had himself and other imprisoned and be a sacrifice for the BBEG. in that tower we found a time prison where several people were in there locked for over thousand years. We entered a tower that represent a source of power which is linked to a gem and a host. To explain further this is what happened: I corrected my sentence in this reply, As far as we know these two has actually been friends. I don't see much of him unless he's telling us to go raid the local villages. Suggestion isn't an "I win" button in this sense, it's merely a way to get information from the point of view of the prisoner.Ĭonversely if it's just a grunt.well I know he's a Black Dragonborn, likes to drink whiskey and always has wenches visiting his tent. If they feel the BBEG is tyrannical and they don't like him.well the information will be skewed to show that. Let's say that the guy is absolutely enamored by the BBEG, then he's going to make the BBEG out to be some sort of grand personality and he's bringing about a new age of glory. It's not going to be neutral, reading from the DM's BBEG notes, it's going to be skewed by the prisoner's ideology and perception. ![]() But the greatest tool is to give the information from the perspective of this prisoner's point of view. If the organization is loose and open with information, then you'll get more. Now, if the organization is cell based then you'll get only the information that this person is allowed to know, nothing more. The fun part though is it will be a steady stream of information, and will not necessarily be in any reasonable timeline or structure, just a stream of conscious thought. You'll get information spilling out about plans, goals, conversations, and other information that the party is looking for. You'll get information about their last known location, be it a tent out in the fields, a temple in another town, or a base near where they are. You'll get information about height, weight, handedness, odd habits, social and physical quirks, favorite food and other fluff information that someone in close proximity might pick up. "Tell us everything you know about the BBEG" is the suggestion, I'd play this of in a semi-literal sense, but I'd also do it from a point of perspective and what information would be trusted to this 2nd in command. Let's assume that the prisoner is in the higher echelon of power, the 2nd in command of the organization. This is a situation where things like understanding presentation, story telling, and organizational status can really make the response to the spell unique to the situation. Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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