Fair enough-I've played with the guy for a decently long time and I don't think I've ever seen him stumped like that before.īut I'm very curious how YOU, dear reader, would have handled that situation, as a player or as a DM. So after a few more questions, I had this bright idea: "I will interpret gibberish as a 'yes'."ĭM ruled that that didn't work, and cut the encounter short as he felt there'd be rather extreme worldbuilding implications if a combination of two 2nd-level spells could be used to interrogate someone in that fashion. Guy seems to have figured out that babbling incoherently is how you get around Zone of Truth. We got a zero, followed by a pause, followed by a stream of binary gibberish. Are you being controlled by an outside force?" So, after someone also cast Zone of Truth just to be sure, I said: Computers existed at one point in this setting (there was an apocalypse, blah blah blah, not the point), so it stands to reason that the idea of binary exists. Now, it occurred to me that pretty much anything in the world can be expressed in numbers with a little creativity. Turns out this guy can only think in numbers. No outside stimulus seemed to affect him, including every language we knew, threats of violence, some actual violence-even the Command spell didn't do a whole lot productive. He appeared unable to speak, and definitely wasn't right in the head-his eyes fluttered around the room (an Insight check revealed that this was tactical analysis) and then stared straight into nothingness. Our DM presented us with an assassin, who we took prisoner and managed to prevent from suicide pilling. (Before you say anything, our DM ruled that the two spells work together-personally, I'd have leaned on the word "speak" and shot it down, given the situation at hand, but he likes to encourage creativity, so.) Zone of Truth specifies that an affected creature cannot speak a deliberate lie while in the zone.ĭetect Thoughts, as the name implies, lets you read minds.
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