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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4827164" data-attributes="member: 13892">It's an AD&D 1e rule. It is discussed on pages 111 and 112 of the AD&D 1e DMG. Here are the basics: If a character beseeching help has been exemplary in faithfulness, then he has a straight 10% chance that some creature will be sent to his or her aid if this is the first time the character has asked for help. If 00 is rolled, roll again. On this second roll, there is a percentage chance equal to the character’s level of  experience that the deity itself will come. This chance is modified by how well a character has played to alignment and other factors. Each previous intervention on behalf of the character levies a -5% penalty, half-assedly acting according to alignment levies penalties from -5% to -10%, and intervention requiring direct confrontation with another deity levies a penalty of -10%.If the character is working against forces of diametrically opposed alignment a +1% bonus is granted, and if a character is serving a deity directly (through  direct instructions from the deity itself), they gain +  25%So, yes, there were rules for this. That said, your percentage chance of getting a god to assist you was effectively 1% (you have to make that 00 roll first) and getting a creature sent to your aid was 10% (and only if it's the first time you asked for such aid). I think the idea is that the gods of AD&D help those who help themselves.</blockquote>