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<blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 7584990" data-attributes="member: 15882"><p>I see portent as a ritual cast in the morning: geomancy, the rolling of bones, reading tea leaves, chicken entrails - whatever.</p><p></p><p>It gives the diviner some general insight that is vague/obscure at the moment it's cast. Some kind event on a general situation that is unclear until the moment arises.</p><p></p><p>Then, when a situation arises where portent dice might be used, I narrate that as the caster suddenly realizing that the omen they predicted in the morning coincides with this specific moment, which pushes them to act.</p><p></p><p>So, an enemy attacking them might cause the player to use that 1 he rolled to make the enemy miss and is narrated as insight striking the diviner at the right moment, putting the omen from the morning together with event as it unfolds, causing him to dodge.</p><p></p><p>Or the he realizes that casting Hold Person at that moment was the event the he'd predicted in the morning and the player uses that 1 to make the target fail a save.</p><p></p><p>So, in that sense, I see it as an active thing instead of a passive flash of omniscience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TaranTheWanderer, post: 7584990, member: 15882"] I see portent as a ritual cast in the morning: geomancy, the rolling of bones, reading tea leaves, chicken entrails - whatever. It gives the diviner some general insight that is vague/obscure at the moment it's cast. Some kind event on a general situation that is unclear until the moment arises. Then, when a situation arises where portent dice might be used, I narrate that as the caster suddenly realizing that the omen they predicted in the morning coincides with this specific moment, which pushes them to act. So, an enemy attacking them might cause the player to use that 1 he rolled to make the enemy miss and is narrated as insight striking the diviner at the right moment, putting the omen from the morning together with event as it unfolds, causing him to dodge. Or the he realizes that casting Hold Person at that moment was the event the he'd predicted in the morning and the player uses that 1 to make the target fail a save. So, in that sense, I see it as an active thing instead of a passive flash of omniscience. [/QUOTE]
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