Truth Serum
Tech power · Level 2
power-typeTechlevel2concentration
New in SW5eThink Zone of Truth, but delivered as a touch poison: on a failed Con save the target can't tell deliberate lies for the duration, though they can answer evasively as long as their responses stay within the truth.✨
Administer a poison on a Con save to prevent a touched creature from speaking deliberate lies for 10 minutes.
DebuffDetection
●○○breadth · roleplay interrogation only
TargetingSingle
Use wheninterrogating a prisoner or caught suspect before questioning
ScalingFlat — no higher-slot scaling.
!Creature remains aware of the effect and can simply refuse to answer or be evasive — it cannot lie, but silence is legal.
poisonmind-affectingdivination
Pairs witha social/infiltration campaign · Charisma-based interrogation checks · a party that captures prisoners
You administer a poison to a creature you touched that prevents it from telling lies. The creature touched must make a Constitution saving throw. On a success, nothing happens. On a failure, the creature can't speak a deliberate lie until the power ends.
An affected creature is aware of the power and can thus avoid answering questions to which it would normally respond with a lie. Such a creature can be evasive in its answers as long as it remains within the boundaries of the truth.
- Casting Period
- 1 action
- Range
- Touch
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Concentration
- No