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Right idea, wrong numbers. :) 1-2 are prayer books etc. 3-5 are divine minions, assistants, etc. 6-7 come from the deity direct. Cleric spells in 1e only go to 7. EDIT: Ninja'ed by @Maxperson

For those times when it is truly needed. Think of it as more analagous to calling 911. When there's a true emergency, you call it; when there isn't, you leave it alone so other people can use it without you bunging up the line - there's a finite number of 911 operators, after all. You don't...

--- poof --- Your setting vanishes in a puff of smoke.

Well, yes; barring something highly unusual even deities are bound by the universal fact that time only flows one way. A lot, but there's still a limit; plus they've probably got other things on their plates as well.

There are a near-infinite number of worlds in the Prime Material, never mind what's on other planes. On a lot of those worlds are Clerics to Deity X capable of casting Commune. Even if each of those Clerics only casts Commune once a year, Deity X is going to spend a far-too-great percentage of...

That's not far from what I've done to the 1e version over the years. You get one question per 2 levels (rounded down). Each question can only be answered with yes, no, maybe, unknown, or a number. And I have the same clause re the deity's interests occasionally allowing for a short phrase...

Kitchen sink, all day long. The potential variety of setting, culture, climate, etc. is vital for the long-term continuation of a campaign, even if only some of that variety gets realized in play.

Chaotic = anarchist, at the root. The tricksters you're describing don't seem very Chaotic. (Ab)Using the system or exploiting flaws to benefit yourself is IMO Lawful Evil all day long. No idea how 5e handles it but in earlier editions you got your 3rd-5th level spells delivered by a minion...

Ditto on Firefox. This might be a google thing, as I've noticed the same behavior on a few other sites recently as well.

I think we have vastly different ideas on what makes a trickster deity (or its followers) tick. Gaming the system would be the purview of, to use alignment terms, a Lawful Evil sort, or maybe Neutral Evil. Chaotic Evil or Chaotic Neutral would more want to upend or destroy the system in favour...

A Cleric to a trickste A Cleric to a trickster deity would embrace the chaos and randomness and just draw!

If no-one else is willing to run what you want to play there's only two remaining options: either you run it, or it doesn't get run at all. The potential long-term advantage if you run it is that maybe one or more of the players take to the game and decide to try running it themselves, which...

At the moment, perhaps; but if you allow that and then don't force an immediate card draw you're opening the door to abuse: they keep shuffling and casting divinations until they know a good card is on top, then draw before the Deck gets shuffled again. The solution, of course, is that while...

Correct. Divinations would not work on these things other than to maybe tell you their effects are or may be random and unpredictable...which, with a Deck, is probably already known info anyway. Identify will tell you it's a Wand of Wonder with 20-25 charges remaining, its command word is...

I think there's a difference between 'bad', where a DM is actively trying to hose the players or constantly repeats the same mistakes due to refusal or inability to learn, and 'poor' or 'inept' where a DM is earnestly trying but doesn't know the ropes well enough or keeps unintentionally...

And yet, when you get a whole table full of that guys it can produce one rockin' and entertaining game. I speak from experience on this one. :)

I do the percentile roll when they first try to learn each individual spell (except for those given by training), rather than go through the whole list when they reach that spell level. Thus, if you're a 6th level MU but have never tried to learn Identify before, you'd have never rolled d% for...

Portent is in UA I think. And yes, the whole point of the Deck is that nothing can tell you what you're about to draw. Even deities can't predict the future.

An inexperienced DM is ony bad if they don't or won't learn from mistakes made.

It has to be, otherwise Augury or even Portent would completely break it, never mind Commune. Yeah, here I'd have simply pointed out that the Deck's magic trumped your Phylactery just like it trumps any other divinations and stopped there.