Heal (Apath)

Unofficial rules compendium

Diagnose Condition

When a creature is subject to a condition or effect, the Heal skill can identify what the condition is. This can be done once as a free action, and repeated rolls are allowed by taking move actions to diagnose the effect further. The DC is saving throw DC of of the effect, or 10 +1/2 the level of the effect's source for effects that do not allow a saving throw. This only identifies the condition or effect. You can learn the duration or source through additional successful Heal checks.

A condition is generally diagnosed on an adjacent creature. It can be done at range, with a penalty equal to the distance in feet.

Torture

The Heal skill can be used to inflict pain on a helpless creature with minimal damage. Torture is a mind-affecting fear effect. Targets immune to nonlethal damage cannot be tortured. Performing or ordering the use of torture is an evil action.

The DC of a torture attempt is 10 + twice the target’s Will save bonus against fear. Each torture attempt takes a number of hours equal to the target’s hit dice (minimum 1 hour) and inflicts 1d6 points of Constitution damage and nonlethal damage equal to ten times the target’s hit dice. The torturer can cut this time short but takes a –1 penalty on the Heal check for each missing hour.

A failed attempt at torture allows the victim to present a lie as if it was the truth. Each successful use of Torture extracts some information from the target. The accuracy of information gained under torture is highly unreliable. The Torturer makes a Wisdom check (DC 11, a die roll of 1 always fails). If this check fails the torturer leads the victim on and receives the answer he expected or hoped for, or what the victim thinks the torturer is looking for, rather than the truth. Repeated torture might yield new information which is just as unreliable.

The GM makes all die rolls for torture, and there is no way to separate true and false information. Not even supernatural means can separate truth and falsehood under torture, the victim has convinced himself what he says is the truth.

Torture can also be used as punishment, or as a vile type of performance, in which case a successful Heal check means the victim reacts appropriately.

Heavy-handed but fast interrogation tactics, even ones that hurt, are not truly torture and instead covered by the influence attitude part of the Intimidation skill.

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