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<blockquote data-quote="Humanophile" data-source="post: 293496" data-attributes="member: 1049">Fortune-telling would be cool, but the knowledge is astronomy, not astrology, and besides I could see a fortunetelling skill being too commonly taken and/or requiring the DM to be better at making up properly mystical-sounding, cryptic BS on the spot than he actually is.&nbsp; Proper fortunetelling should always be in the DM's hands, not the player's, at least IMHO.However, astronomy can have several uses.&nbsp; Magic rituals or locations may only be useable during certain astrological conjunctions, and there could easily be astrology-based riddles that the players have to figure out.&nbsp; And any halfway compotent astronomer would know his constellations and be able to predict when the stars will be right.I'd hold off the seeing signs of doom in the stars until way later in the game, though.&nbsp; It's best to hold off the epic grandeur until the characters are able to handle it by themselves and care enough about the world to have reasons to save it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Humanophile, post: 293496, member: 1049"] Fortune-telling would be cool, but the knowledge is astronomy, not astrology, and besides I could see a fortunetelling skill being too commonly taken and/or requiring the DM to be better at making up properly mystical-sounding, cryptic BS on the spot than he actually is. Proper fortunetelling should always be in the DM's hands, not the player's, at least IMHO. However, astronomy can have several uses. Magic rituals or locations may only be useable during certain astrological conjunctions, and there could easily be astrology-based riddles that the players have to figure out. And any halfway compotent astronomer would know his constellations and be able to predict when the stars will be right. I'd hold off the seeing signs of doom in the stars until way later in the game, though. It's best to hold off the epic grandeur until the characters are able to handle it by themselves and care enough about the world to have reasons to save it. [/QUOTE]

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