05-18-2022, 05:45 PM
(05-18-2022, 05:40 PM)Malek Wrote: truth serums as they are would sort of make for worse prisoner RP I feel like if they spread, the way they are where I assume they're rare/event rewards is fine enough, but if it's common practice then there rarely needs to be any actual investigative work to find out a prisoner's crimes or intents. You can lock a prisoner into a conversion arc by going 'Do you intend to ever hurt us again? Will you work with our enemies?' or find instant justification to kill them.
I think for truth serums to be justified as being a proper recipe then they have to be like the truth contracts I made where they allow half truths and don't force you to answer FULLY when you're captured, so truth serums aren't a be all end all interrogation practice that lets you obtain any and all info the other person has
In spires, they were called truth potions. They were really strong in that they had to tell the truth from how they viewed it and nothing else (or was it the objective truth?) The issue is, that some cases may end up in metagame, but it would be pretty neat to have it back again, just to see how far it would go.