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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7643924" data-attributes="member: 29398">True, a common plan B if the wizard doesn't have HP prepped. Not that hard to imagine a gem, is it?  Or a coin?  So cast Locate Object in mid-dungeon and find out where the treasure is.  Get split up from one of your companions?  Cast Locate Object on her shield, it'll at least tell you whether she's close or not.  Not sure where the vampire went on going gaseous?  Cast Locate Object and look for coffins - they're pretty easy to imagine.  Best one I've seen: party can't find a secret door for the life of 'em until someone cast Locate Object and looked for hinges...Need I go on? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Who says there has to be a point, other than Chaotics causing chaos?As written, yes; but Commune as written is kinda broken particularly in 1e.  We split it down by houserule into Lesser Commune (still a 5th-level spell) and Greater Commune (at 7th) - Greater works like the as-written original while Lesser can only give answers of 'yes', 'no', 'maybe', 'unknown' or a single number.  Even then, Lesser still gets cast at almost every opportunity now that the PC Clerics are 9th+ level.The DM in the game I play in also put a significant monetary cost-per-question on to Lesser Commune, and that's starting to drive us over to COP.</blockquote>

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