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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SnowDog" data-source="post: 1171076" data-attributes="member: 2225">Thanks for suggestionsI appreciate your all taking the time to comment.  We got together tonight and after serious consideration the player in question decided a Divination spell was going to be more useful than a Commune anyway.I took some combined advice and ended up deciding that:- You don't always tap into your god.  We use the Book of the Righteous cosmology, where gods have powerful servants who assist in various tasks -- like, now, handling communes.  You can increase your chance of hitting a god by casting the spell on a holy day, from within sacred ground, etc.- Gods are not omniscient. If you ask the god of air whether a specific noble within the city is helping smuggle slaves in, he just might not know.  The god of secrets will, and any other god which this noble might be involved with for whatever reason ... or any god which has to do with slavery, maybe.  Etc.  This is especially true if you're just dealing with a powerful servant of the god and not the god himself.- The BOTR has a faith called The Great Church which worship all the gods, but none in specific.  Their Communes are answered by powerful angels in service of the cause of good, and they have knowledge on a great many topics, but it's only shallow knowledge.  This is the tradeoff.In the end, it's my hope that we can use this spell to tell better stories, instead of ruining the story.  We'll see how it goes!</blockquote>

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