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Does no one stock a Zone of Truth for this exact scenario?
Why waste a spell slot when hitting him is free*?
(* well, except for the low low cost of setting your alignment to evil...)
Scribe scroll is a very underutilized feature of the wizard's arsenal.
Probably because the rules for doing so are FUCKING ATROCIOUS!
Because the information you get isn't going to be true.
That's a clever way of finding out who to torture.
Zone of truth doesn't compell answers. "I won't tell you" is a true answer.
Which is where the fist-and-knife method comes in.
No, see, you just start with the Zone of Truth. It's the warmup.