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<blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 2773511" data-attributes="member: 141"><p>Those are pretty ambitious tasks. Your modern magic setting would have to be pretty epic for even small demiplanes to be created or destroyed in this way. And it doesn't seem very lawful good to use holy souls as fuel!</p><p></p><p>One other thought- psychopomps are angels whose task it is to guide the souls of the departed to their final destination. Could a high level ritual enable the leader of a powerful religion change the destination of a few doubtful cases? Nothing radical, like sending holy souls into hell, but giving suicides the opportunity to repent posthumously, making sure that neutral good souls don't end up in limbo, and so on.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What "heaven" and "hell" refers to in certain sacred texts- I'd allow that as a knowledge religion check. Basic cosmological questions (like whether there are several lower planes or just one) should be a DC 10 or 15, shouldn't they? Probably 15, since otherwise anyone could make an untrained check- and you certainly need a little background on the subject.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if real world classes have access to knowledge: the planes. If they do (without some sort of weird feat or prestige class) he should have a few ranks, or at least have access to an academic who does. So the pope should know if anyone does.</p><p></p><p>And that's without using the Infallibility class ability. Which originally was broken, but now it has been nerfed almost to the point of uselessness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cheiromancer, post: 2773511, member: 141"] Those are pretty ambitious tasks. Your modern magic setting would have to be pretty epic for even small demiplanes to be created or destroyed in this way. And it doesn't seem very lawful good to use holy souls as fuel! One other thought- psychopomps are angels whose task it is to guide the souls of the departed to their final destination. Could a high level ritual enable the leader of a powerful religion change the destination of a few doubtful cases? Nothing radical, like sending holy souls into hell, but giving suicides the opportunity to repent posthumously, making sure that neutral good souls don't end up in limbo, and so on. What "heaven" and "hell" refers to in certain sacred texts- I'd allow that as a knowledge religion check. Basic cosmological questions (like whether there are several lower planes or just one) should be a DC 10 or 15, shouldn't they? Probably 15, since otherwise anyone could make an untrained check- and you certainly need a little background on the subject. I don't know if real world classes have access to knowledge: the planes. If they do (without some sort of weird feat or prestige class) he should have a few ranks, or at least have access to an academic who does. So the pope should know if anyone does. And that's without using the Infallibility class ability. Which originally was broken, but now it has been nerfed almost to the point of uselessness. [/QUOTE]
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