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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prince of Happiness" data-source="post: 3560610" data-attributes="member: 19819">I don't necessarily see that happening very reliably when there are active forces that will deliberately work against the efficacy of divinations. People like to toss this out there, but what's to say that plagues aren't punishments by "good" gods as well? We have germ theory, etc, etc, etc, but we still have monster pandemics and epidemics. Commune and other divination spells *still* will not be the panacea that everyone is making it out to be, especially if the number of infected reaches a critical mass, or that even by the time that people realize that they're in the midst of an epidemic, it would be too late.Furthermore, there's an underlying assumption that civil authorities (if they're even a central authority that is strong enough) would be altruistic enough, and have enough capital to institute the amount of infrastructure to create a hygenic society. It would be patchwork at best and rural districts would most likely be the hardest hit as D&D societies would be largely agrarian societies and dispersed over geographical areas that would inhibit appropriate-level NPC distribution that could handle the crisis.</blockquote>