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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Regicide" data-source="post: 5009300" data-attributes="member: 67552">Not really, 3600 is cheap.  This is potentially an over the top power that makes other powers that also got reigned in, like flight and tongues, look pretty minor.   Is my wench cheating on me?  What items has the party rogue pocketed instead of sharing with us?  Which armies are gathering right now?  Yikes!  Who killed JFK?  Who helped?  That is world changing.  Minority Report anyone?  Who is making plans to commit murder right now?  Even if you heavy-hand the "can't really judge" line so this is out, even just the postcognition is world changing in any town sufficiently wealthy enough to cast this in response to major crimes.   Thus requiring either the players be experts with the game who know all the rituals and smart enough to apply that piece of information to what they're doing, or having the DM hold their hand and railroad them to a ritual caster who suggests it.  Neither option is very pleasant and brings back memories of modules where the party is utterly hosed if they don't walk into fights death warded or mind blanked.  "Oh sorry guys, guess you should have burnt that incense and done a divination to know what buffs you needed beforehand!"Anyway, the wording of the ritual says "potential to know" so it gives the DM the flexibility to hand out as much information they want without having to ban it or jump through hoops of non-existent anti-oracle-out-space-and-time-peep-show rituals which the PCs will inevitably want to be able to do too.</blockquote>

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