Torture

[Dork Lord]

I'd like to think the strongest willed could potentially resist even the most skilled interrogators indefinitely. The way the Skill vs Will Save works though, it puts the interrogator at an immediate advantage, and a pretty severe one at that.

[Lord Fyre]

Dork Lord wrote:

I'd like to think the strongest willed could potentially resist even the most skilled interrogators indefinitely. The way the Skill vs Will Save works though, it puts the interrogator at an immediate advantage, and a pretty severe one at that.

History does strongly suggest that a skilled and sufficiently ruthless interrogator will break any Will.

History also suggests that the resulting information will be extremely suspect, as the victim will be willing to say or confess to anything to make the torture stop.

Spoiler:

Which, as an American, tends to through the Bush Administration's claim that important intelligence was gained by "waterboarding" also extremely suspect.

Fiction most definitely focuses on the exceptional individual who never breaks.

So it depends on what you are trying to simulate.

[Gruumash]

Lord Fyre wrote:

Dork Lord wrote:

I'd like to think the strongest willed could potentially resist even the most skilled interrogators indefinitely. The way the Skill vs Will Save works though, it puts the interrogator at an immediate advantage, and a pretty severe one at that.

History does strongly suggest that a skilled and sufficiently ruthless interrogator will break any Will.

History also suggests that the resulting information will be extremely suspect, as the victim will be willing to say or confess to anything to make the torture stop.
** spoiler omitted **

Fiction most definitely focuses on the exceptional individual who never breaks.

So it depends on what you are trying to simulate.

While I think you are right in saying that even the strongest willed would break eventually. What one if you were the tortured could hope for is take the example of Giles Corey. Keep asking for more weight and thus defeat the torturers by your death. Grim no doubt but probably the best outcome for the tortured should they need to keep information from the torturer.