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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4807451" data-attributes="member: 177">I meant it was unspecified in that we were not talking about communing with a particular, specific god.  In a specific campaign, there might be some reason to trust or understand the answer given by a particular being - but were were talking in the generic sense, so it was unspecified.Let me put it another way - "Demon" and "Devil" are human classifications - depending on the cosmology of the world, they may not be metaphysically meaningful.  Nor may the words "Chaotic Good" have the same meaning to the gods as they do in the rulebook.  A heftily Lawful Good god may look upon a True Neutral god as being relatively chaotic and evil. And, if the god you are asking has "skin in the game", such that how you react to the question is important, the answer may be slanted to suit, no?  It isn't that the clerics don't know what they are doing - it is that when you are talking about entities that have their own goals, trusting them to be direct and literal is only wise if your GM promises that they will always be direct and literal.  And, of course, if the PCs aren't casting the spells themselves, and are getting their answers through NPCs... well, then what they get is filtered through a mortal agent who may have his or her own agenda or beliefs.The point being that the existence of the spells does not necessarily clarify all areas of doubt and uncertainty in the mortal populace.  Things may be clear if the GM wants them that way, or they may be murky.</blockquote>

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