Doghousing in Hell's Rebels


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Okay. I'm nearing the point for my own group of rebels to encounter an official Doghousing event and am a bit puzzled by this.

The depiction of the event has a 30 foot by 30 foot wooden scaffolding/platform with a "doghouse" built there in the center. A prisoner is put in the center of the doghouse and forced to squat and avoid the nails and spikes poking in. Essentially it's a cheap version of an Iron Maiden, or one of those metal cages like that found in the movie Willow where Madmartigan was found imprisoned (some of those have spikes poking inward so that the victims cut themselves when they fall asleep or lose consciousness).

So how is it 1d4 prisoners go in there? What, do they have up to four prisoners in a queue and the d4 is to see if they succumb to their wounds and thirst quickly or not? Do they have four doghouses but don't always fill all four?

How is it that the Ravens can start freeing Doghousing prisoners and yet it's always a DC 11 chance to spring at least one prisoner? Once the guards realize that prisoners are being sprung, shouldn't it become more of a game of cat-and-mouse with the guards trying to catch the prisoners and their liberators?

Further, these aren't generic guards. They shouldn't be easily bribed. This is their description: The excruciators themselves are dottari guards-men and women clad in black leather trousers, bloodstainedchainmail aprons, and face-obscuring hoods painted with mocking visages, the universal emblem of their terrible craft. In short, these are elite guards and torturers who get well paid for their craft and a bribe isn't going to dissuade them. A Sleep spell might get one, but definitely not all of them.

Finally, as other players have pointed out... a level 2 commoner is going to be going unconscious or die within two days. If they're unlucky then after the first day they're out because of dog bites alone.

This sounds interesting in theory as a means of spreading fear and terror but honestly it wasn't thought through very well.

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