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[-] Susaga@ttrpg.network 73 points 1 year ago
  1. Burn the body.
  2. Kill a stranger.
  3. Wear a disguise.
  4. Hide the head.
  5. Cast Speak With Dead yourself so nobody else can.

There are many ways to keep a witness from identifying you. You just need to be creative.

Yes DM, this comment right here.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

Depending on the edition, speak with dead requires the corpse to have a working jaw, so just destroy that. If you hide the head, someone can just find it.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Can a dead body without a tongue still speak when affected by speak with the dead?

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I believe the requirement is jaw not tongue.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago
  1. Mixing character knowledge with player knowledge
[-] Susaga@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago

This is all stuff you'd have a reason to know in character when a setting includes something as impactful as the ability to use the dead as a witness. If the victim can be a witness, you need to either fool or silence the victim post-mortem.

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In this thread: Some fantasy heroes with suspiciously significant and specific experience getting away with fantasy realm murder. All for the greater good of the fantasy realm, I am sure.

This is also why I have to build all of my key NPC story roles as ready to lift-and-shift to a new NPC in case the planned NPC "has an accident".

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is also why I have to build all of my key NPC story roles as ready to lift-and-shift to a new NPC in case the planned NPC “has an accident”.

I call this the Babylon 5 approach to plot/character design.

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] teft@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh right. I always forget that Zarthas is Zarthas brother.

Yeah, I'm going to have to remember some of these tips people are sharing...

[-] 15liam20@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Five questions? Seems arbitrary.

[-] teft@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

I cast Disintegrate.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I mean... She is speaking to the dead in that scene...

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ouch. Meta-thought headache. My brain was ignoring that fact. It's speak-with-dead all the way down...

[-] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago

Takes notes...

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