• caboose2006@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Yep, literally had this happen only to have them cast speak with dead right after. Bunch of murder hobos.

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      Luckily the spell text of Speak With Dead states that if the corpse doesn’t like you then it doesn’t have to tell you shit. They’re usually not too keen on having a pleasant conversation with their murderer. The party gets up to five questions to ask but the answer to all five of those questions could just be “Fuck you, I’m dead” and that’s totally legal.

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        1 year ago

        can you charm a departed spirit?

        if you animate their corpse they’d be immune to mind affecting spells, but does their compulsion to obey their master extreme to providing information?

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          Animated undead, with a few very rare exceptions, don’t contain the original soul or any of its knowledge. So no they wouldn’t be able to tell you anything, unless you were conversing with something like a lich or a death knight.

          As far as I know you also can’t charm a corpse, or a disembodied spirit. You get the answers that you get. So if you’re planning on killing a guy and questioning him afterward, make sure he doesn’t know you’re the one responsible.

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        I fed them intentionally false information which they acted on. Wasted a whole session on a wild goose chase.

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    can you give me the cliff notes version of all plot-relevant details? I need to finish looting this place and move on to the next dungeon