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Message: <blockquote data-quote="N'raac" data-source="post: 6188935" data-attributes="member: 6681948">88% shot at the right answer, 2% he tells you he doesn’t know, 10% chance he lies deliberately or accidentally (the latter 1% being subject to the specific deity’s personality).  Cross your fingers.  So how big are your grid squares, and how many castings do you plan on taking.  BTW, I’m not giving you “Take 10” on that INT roll. I’ll give you one question from CoP:  “Can I study an area by asking you questions with one word answers about it?” “No” (or 88% likely “No”, anyway, although the prospect of him not knowing the answer really draws the INT of the deity you contacted into question…). The specific debuffs need a good duration, considering it gets to try its rolls daily at its discretion. “for a maximum of 24 hours per caster level” is not “a duration of 24 hours per caster level”.  It is a maximum.  Extend could extend the 10 minute per level duration, but that’s not the variant casting. Nothing whatsoever, Mr. HyperIntelligent Wizard.  Specifically: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Curse is touch range – you just violated the Magic Circle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Geas causes damage, so I assume you are using Lesser Geas, which causes ability damage.  And works only on creatures of 7 or fewer hit dice.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Both remain in effect, so I assume you will be casting Break Enchantment assuming it accepts your demands.</li> </ul> Like the actual spell descriptions? No, it has to be “some open-ended task that the creature cannot complete though its own actions”.  Unless it can reach the end of your days through its own actions, you get 1 day/level. And I just can’t IMAGINE how “Guard me from all harm” could be misinterpreted by an intelligent devious lower planar creature to frustrate your goals… In any case, I’m with pemerton on this one  No open ended tasks. Or its online equivalent, sure.  For RPG’s should that be “if neither the facts or the rules are on your side, flip the table”? Best post on the thread, BTW, but I can’t xp, it seems.</blockquote>

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