Nine Ways to Hide the Truth and Get Away With It |
| Published: January 23, 2009, 3:04 am |
| Tags: on gaming, on writing, gaming, hide the truth, lie detection, tips advice, writing |
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One of the common staples of magic systems is the ability to detect lies. It’s so simple, so logical, so useful but many people shy away from it. Why? Because it makes it hard to bring in mysteries, or conspiracies, or much of anything that requires people to hide the truth. It doesn’t have to, though. Everything has a counter or a bypass, and lie detection is no exception. It just requires being clever. For the sake of this essay, I’m going to use the standard lie detection effect. It requires the user to understand the speaker, and specifically detects and alerts its user to deliberate untruth. Now. How does a clever character get around this? Don’t actually lie. This is the basis for foiling any of these things: you may beat around the bush, you may sidestep the question, you may do any of a number of things, but you may not lie, because you’ll get caught. But that’s not too specific, so…. Answer a different [ Full article ] |
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