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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdweller00" data-source="post: 6745263" data-attributes="member: 6778479">Unless you are trying to hide a particular secret for a big reveal later, it's probably better to focus on how you can empower the other PCs to gather useful information and generally feel worthwhile than how to block a particular character's divinations.  It's frequently a good idea to put a couple challenges in front of the PCs that are extremely difficult or dangerous to overcome if approached in the wrong way.  One can then put clues as to how best to circumvent these challenges in diverse places for the PCs to find.  For example the PCs might be able to track the direction a raiding party left.  Some old geezer about town might be able to tell the PCs what sort of monsters live in that direction.  A survivor of the raid might be able to tell the PCs what abilities or weaknesses the raiders seemed to possess.  A particular merchant might possess a map of oases in that direction.  Or know that the sand-leviathan that lives in the wastes over there can't distinguish anyone cloaked in red from the desert sands.  A former soldier might be familiar with how the raiders tend to assemble themselves and could tell the PCs that the front door is likely guarded by 1000 soldiers whereas the back entrance is usually left alone.  A historian might possess a map of some old ruins where the raiders might be holed up.  The right prayers or divinations might provide something else entirely.Almost all divinations possess some clear and built-in limitations that help protect the plot.  Familiarizing one's self with the list previously mentioned is probably a good idea.  The ones I personally tend to have the most difficulty with are Divination/Legend Lore because they sort of require the DM to make up cryptic phrases on the fly.  So if my players are likely to use those spells, I try to have something suitable prepared if I can predict what they are likely to ask about.</blockquote>

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