Put Nyrid in my dungeon...

[Matty101]

escaped that same night....whats the point of the prison if they just walk out?

[General Malaise]

Seems silly - unless there's a quest to get her(or him) back. I dont' know what the point of putting anyone in there is, unless it gives some dialogue.

[Undead Rufus]

People escape when your security rating is low.

You'll eventually get payoff offers for people in your dungeon, and there is some minor RP value in being able to have your jailer flog people and so forth. To what extent any of this matters, I do not know.

All that said, I'm not sure that any of the benefits to imprisoning an NPC measure up to simply killing him/her and selling off the loot, because all the payoffs I've seen so far have been stupidly low.

[50 Cal]

torture champer in expansion pls

[Revolucas]

That would be awesome if you can use them as combat dummies or build an arena and force them to kill eachother.

[gecimen]

Or tame them and recruit them as guards or other staff.

[Matty101]

I thought they'd be usefull as sources of possible quest information later

[Matthias]

This Nyrid I find particularly bothersome because you are bound to meet him immediately when you only just got the stronghold and when it's extremely unlikely that you already have a dungeon (i.e. if you walk straight and do the quest at once). Bioware, err, Obsidian leaves you no choice here. Not good design. But not only that, but if he surenders you have to kill him if you have no dungeon yet. And killing someone who surrenders without leaving a choice? Not a good choice system.

And of course who knows what is the point of prisoners. That purely depends on what the game is offering, which is probably not much.

Anyway...

[RoTru]

@gecimen yeah because I'd want criminals and super evil mofos as part of my staff.......

[Erei]

Prisons are useless in the game. I don't know if it was changed, but the money you loose by not looting the body is usually not gained back by selling them.
It's just better to kill them. There is only a single quest were you have the ability to emprison someone as an alternative solution (scripted dialogue), in Northweald.