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Flesh to Stone.
Craft/Artistry (Sculpture).
Stone to Flesh.
OW, Simple but effective
There are some canon ones. Nightglass is largely set in Nidal nad has some freaky stuff.
Hell's Pawns describes execution in Egorian as using an implement called 'The Tines'. Radovan frequently employs an obscene hand gesture based on this method of execution.
Speaking of canon? Drow. Just... drow.
Fleshwarping is bad.
Dammit, I was just thinking that before I got to your post.
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The book The Carpet Makers is essentially a 300 page meditation on this. I won't spoil it, becuase the book is awesome. But it has some pretty spectacular out of the box torture.
Atheists or Maltheists(like myself) might be tortured till they verbally agree with the inquisitors. Primitives might just throw the nonbelievers into the volcano in the hope it wouldn't erupt to punish them. Some religions would design a dungeon that mimicked afterlife punishments. Believers in religions that could not possibly coexist with their own were simply crucified as an example to others.
The dungeons I am referring to are the caverns that were found to contain only poisonous snakes and remains, and the one on the history channel that had many chambers each resembling one of Hades's punishments. Treasure would be only (supposedly) false idols and heretical scrolls(or books) the condemned were forced to carry with them to their doom.
How 'bout this one for an odd form of punishment: a magical item that every day creates a Lesser Simulacrum of the target, doomed only to live for half a day and available for public (or private) torture and abuse.
This would of course not actually hurt the original convict, but it's an interesting form of vengeance - one which might continue for hundreds of years.
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Find a loved one, baleful polymorph into a lobster. Give said lobster to the person you need tortured as food.
Lobsters are usually cooked alive, and polymorphed creatures reform to their natural state when killed...
Not bad, but then you're still effectively killing somebody who was innocent. I'd say it'd be better if your victim was the polymorphed one, and it's their loved ones who do the cooking. Then not only is your victim the one who dies, but they die slowly at the hands of their own family, knowing what a horrible shock their family is about to get once it's over.
I also liked the idea of forcibly reincarnating/polymorphing someone into the population which they have wronged. Too much murderhoboing? Enjoy life as a goblin! Crimes against dwarvenkind? You'll live out the rest of your life in our keep, by our laws!
Here's one I prepared for another thread:
The prisoner is manacled to a plinth, and subject to a Transmute Flesh to Stone spell. The prisoner's name, date of transmutation, and a brief description of his or her crimes are chiseled lightly into his or her back (just enough to permanently scar if transmuted back), and then the prisoner is moved to an outdoor display area as a warning to others. Future judges may decide when the prisoner has "served their debt to society", assuming they survive the elements and potential vandalism at the hands of those whom their crimes have wronged.
Hey killing an innocent is a time honored legal tradition. Eye for an eye!
Find a loved one, baleful polymorph into a lobster. Give said lobster to the person you need tortured as food.
Lobsters are usually cooked alive, and polymorphed creatures reform to their natural state when killed...
You starve the person, then present them with the lobster and butter. They boil the water, they put the lobster in, and then it turns back into their friend.. after they've killed it.
... I really shouldn't read this kind of thread while Im angry.
Find a loved one, baleful polymorph into a lobster. Give said lobster to the person you need tortured as food.
Lobsters are usually cooked alive, and polymorphed creatures reform to their natural state when killed...
You starve the person, then present them with the lobster and butter. They boil the water, they put the lobster in, and then it turns back into their friend.. after they've killed it.
... I really shouldn't read this kind of thread while Im angry.
Probably not, but who knows, you might meet a hit man.
Kind of plays fast and loose with the rules, but fun: The Room of Regeneration.
A malfunctioning piece of ancient technology originally intended for use as an intensive care ward, this room causes any creature inside to regenerate, keeping people alive and undoing any recent damage they may take, no matter how severe. Unfortunately, it has a side effect of slowly causing insatiable hunger. The longer you stay in the room, the hungrier you get.
So, all you have to do, put your prisoner in the room, give them a bib and set them at a table with knife, fork, and empty plate. Then lock them in, and see how long it takes for them to realize that the only edible thing in there is their own body.
Looking for information? Get a couple of suspects and throw them in the room. First one to talk gets to leave. Whichever one gets butchered the most is probably going to do the math and eventually decide that spilling your guts is a lot better when it is just a figure of speech.
Kind of plays fast and loose with the rules, but fun: The Room of Regeneration.
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Similar to an idea I thought of using a Ring of Regeneration - the Texas Chainsaw BBQ.
Intended has a Ring of Regen put on their hand (and the hand isolated in such a way that they can't remove the ring).
Then, they get tied down. Enter the Butcher, who selects the choicest cuts for the patrons of the BBQ (whomever or whatever they might be) and carves them off. Over and over. Place on a nearby grill. All you can eat BBQ...
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for a Mage, The Physical removal of Magic. Magic is not just a learned thing, it is a gift that is deep within the self. What i mean is not blocking it, not sealing it, but Ripping the magic out of the person, to the point were they cannot cast any magic at all, EVER. Imagine you had this power, to change the world around you. This power was such that you could use it to sense magical energy and the energy of others. It is a Vital part of your self, like the heart or the lungs.
NOW imagine that that your power is ripped out of you, your senses changing, the world becoming more frightening, as your one gift that made you special is taken from you. you cannot cast spells, though you know the words, the methods, the gestures. Its like losing a part of your soul. For many magical types, this is the worst punishment they could ever recieve, as even the most powerful and famed mystic is almost powerless without his magic. After receiving the punishment, a mage might retire, turn to alchemy in an vain attempt to restore what they lost, turn to the Gods in despiration for any mercy they can offer, or even Make Pacts with truely infernal powers. After all, what is a soul worth to someone who has lost the will to live.
the downside to having magic taken from somebody is it has to go somewhere. Storing magic is difficult, dangerous and there are many who would kill to get an infamous archmages power.
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A being made undead and staked in the fields or desert, while gagged. Crows and carrion love the taste of decaying flesh, so imaging being concious as you are slowly picked apart by crows, rats and other things. You don't die right away, but eventually you perish and go to whatever fate awaits the undead. By that time, you are likely insane, very stiff, and have been exposed to sun, cold, rain and wild animal Attacks. Not fun.
A being made undead and staked in the fields or desert, while gagged. Crows and carrion love the taste of decaying flesh, so imaging being concious as you are slowly picked apart by crows, rats and other things. You don't die right away, but eventually you perish and go to whatever fate awaits the undead. By that time, you are likely insane, very stiff, and have been exposed to sun, cold, rain and wild animal Attacks. Not fun.
Except undead beings don't really trap the soul of the person unless you make them into an intelligent undead...nearly all of which could escape this as soon as you turn your back.
Well, my Skull & Shackles captain once corrected the problem of a traitor. Since he was born a snake, I cut off his limbs, split his tongue, cut of his ears, burned all the hair off of his body, and had him tattooed all over. I paraded him around at several pirate ports to show what happens when people crossed him. Eventually the snake was put in a cage in a tavern he owned.
True, it's not the same as a ring of regeneration, but he wasn't worth spending that much gold on revenge.
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A being made undead and staked in the fields or desert, while gagged. Crows and carrion love the taste of decaying flesh, so imaging being concious as you are slowly picked apart by crows, rats and other things. You don't die right away, but eventually you perish and go to whatever fate awaits the undead. By that time, you are likely insane, very stiff, and have been exposed to sun, cold, rain and wild animal Attacks. Not fun.Except undead beings don't really trap the soul of the person unless you make them into an intelligent undead...nearly all of which could escape this as soon as you turn your back.
staked, in the nailed down by hands and feet, then ties to the grounds, gagged to limit the chance of domination, and use a belt of restrict magic to limit the spell casting anyway. the general idea is make them suffer mentally for as long as possible, as well as physically. from a mechanical standpoint, with the way reanimate dead works creates some problems, but that is what creating less powerful home brew Undead is for. It would be stupid to make a wight out of someone you were going to execute. but making them an more intelligent zombie, one with the capacity to think, but with no real power boost besides being undead. and besides, that is why you bring 5+ helpers along with you. Holding someone down by yourself is hard. Unless you are a trox, and its a halfling you are dealing with.
The ever popular Red Shoes
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Flesh to Stone.
Craft/Artistry (Sculpture).
Stone to Flesh.
I was going to suggest this. You could do some really creative things with flesh to stone. I have an NPC in my campaign that's a mobster always surrounded by a harem of medusa whose gaze has no effect on him. He deals in illegal artwork, but also acts as a loan shark that uses a person's petrified loved one as collateral. Each time they're late on a payment, his men chip a piece off. However, he will make sure they're restored to healthy condition if the debt gets paid off. For particularly faithful debtors, he might hire a sculptor to remove a blemish or make the collateral look younger.
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flesh to stone
break off the hands and feet
use stone shape or mending to put the hands and feet on the wrong limbs
stone to flesh
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flesh to stone the victim and an animal
break off heads of each
use stone shape or mending to put the victim's head on the animal's body and vice versa
stone to flesh
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flesh to stone
use stone shape to shape them into a hideous or new form
stone to flesh
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flesh to stone
transmute rock to mud
wait for the victim's form to sag and melt. The time allowed may depend on the severity of the crime.
transmute mud to rock
stone to flesh so the victim is now a sagging blob of flesh
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flesh to stone
break off the hand
stone to flesh the body without the hand
give the hand to the victim as a momento of their crime
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flesh to stone
subject the victim to constant running water with enough force to case erosion. The time exposed to this depends on the severity of the crime.
stone to flesh
Just leave this here...
Meh. We’re all amateurs here. Get an expert--use Planar Ally or Planar Summoning to call up something that’s spent its whole immortal lifespan learning how to inflict torment, such as an Interlocuter Kyton, or a Erinyes Devil.
Alternately, becoming a bodak seems to be about the worst fate the multiverse has to offer.
Thats level 3 tech support. If they need to call a higher up, they get the IRS.
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A person guilty of patricide shall be blindfolded, because they are unworthy of the light. They are led to a field outside the city, stripped of their things and beaten with rods. After this, they are sewn up in a sack along with a live snake, dog, ape and rooster, and the whole sack, criminal and animals and all, is thrown into the nearby river to be carried out to sea. (The ancient Romans actually did this!)
Chain them to the wheel of woe to power the grain mill. Chain them to an oar in the galley. If they escape, polymorph them into an ox and make them pull a plow.
Really Goth? You link the objects I just linked the inspiration for and act like it was your idea?
Really Goth? You link the objects I just linked the inspiration for and act like it was your idea?
I don't remember saying it was my idea.
I just linked the playable version.I think Gary Gygax deserves the credit.
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A quick list of ancient capital punishments.
-tying someone to the front of a canon and then shooting it
-burying someone up to their head and waiting for the tide to come in/slather honey on his face and wait for ants to eat it off
-using hot tongs to rip out someone's [insert various body part here]
-making someone swallow a fireball bead/acid/molten metal
-making someone choose between 2 horrible torture methods repeatedly (it's making the prisoner choose that is the real torture, if he refuses to choose then do both)
-making someone swallow caltrops then use a powerful magnet to get them back out again (not through the mouth if you know what I mean)
-tying someone in fine razor wire that cuts them if they move and casting irresistible dance on them
1)Thin glass rods inserted into whatever orifice will allow them... seal them in with bandages/appropriate clothing etc...
Have a boxing match.
2)Simply immobilizing someone can be torture, no need for rats or vivisection... just strap them to a board, tie up all limbs... make the head so it can't move at all.
Then tickle.
3)Surgically/magically sew/seal everything below the waist.
4)Human centipede
5)Giant pit, hundreds of feet deep, smoothly polished sides, 40 feet across... filled with the dead from previous years/centuries. Gently lower criminal into pit, ignore. They have no light or other people to interact with, just the rotting bodies of the dead.
6)Keep them in a cage in a feast hall, but don't feed them.
making someone swallow a fireball bead
I assume you refer to delayed burst fireball. On that note how about the campfire bead? Easily affordable to any smalll kingdom.
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burying someone up to their head and slather honey on his face and wait for ants to eat it off
For those of you playing at home, this punishment was actually utilized by Oda Nobunaga during Japan's Sengoku Jidai period on a ninja who'd failed to assassinate him. Nobunaga made it worse by decapitating this ninja with a bamboo saw at the same time. That samurai was MEAN!
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As punishment for all of your crimes against the realm, I sentence you to death and community service.
To elaborate: after a lethal dosage of embalming fluids and painkillers, your corpse will be cleaned and animated, after being securely attached to a treadmill until deemed fit to die completely.
This will most likely happen when another heinous criminal is similarly sentenced, in order to take your place.
(A cheaper, easier, if evil, source of perpetual motion than a permanent Gust of Wind)
making someone swallow a fireball beadI assume you refer to delayed burst fireball. On that note how about the campfire bead? Easily affordable to any smalll kingdom.
I was indeed refering to delayed blast fireball, I am not familiar with the campfire bead though? I assume that it is a campfire in a bead?
Including wood! A pile of burning wood appearing in their stomach. And it's usable many times a day. It burns for eight hours OR until extinguished, and has to rest twice the time it was used before it can be used again.
I'm reading The Isle of the Lost by Melissa De La Cruz. In game terms, cast true res on all the dead criminals, put all the worst ones in a dead magic zone, and give them all your trash, junk, and garbage. Now offer their kids a chance to rejoin society by betraying their parents.
I took some liberties with the tone and plot to make this not a spoiler. Read the book and let your mind paint your preferred picture.