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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 5046115" data-attributes="member: 2">My players use divinations extensively, and I absolutely love them. We also use them quite a bit in Sagiro's game. I design my adventures expecting their use, which means that the players get a payoff when they think to try them. My major complaint is more of a meta one; commune sometimes takes forever to resolve if the players really plan out their questions. I try to put a time limit on it.One of the reasons I love spells like commune is that it rewards the players for cleverness, even as it sometimes obscures the truth. The yes/no answers make this almost certain. I build plots that are at least a little bit multi-layered, so the players are unlikely to hit on the exact truth just through the divination. It usually gives them a good place to start, though.Bullgrit, I'd suggest that your DM may have handled the augury spell a little better. My players love augury because it's a nice definitive answer. Divination usually ends up with something a little cryptic ("Ready oil and open flame light your way to wealth!")  My players once cast that before a planned fight against a particularly nasty pseudonatural troll laying in wait for them, and I got to use it with that exact phrase. We were pretty amused.</blockquote>