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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8755371" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, it implies that the gods do not directly and clearly respond to the prayers of ordinary people on short timescales with a frequency that can be simulated with a roll of one d20.This is a pretty relevant setting concern.  If the rules for PCs are also relevant to NPCs, and a PC can generate an obvious miracle on the order of one try out of every twenty, then towns with large congregations should be able to generate miracles every week when they come into worship!  If they all pray, someone is going to make that check.  Families at home should be able to produce these interventions every month or two if they pray every night before going to sleep.If that's happening, that really needs to be a clear setting conceit.  So maybe the gods blatantly answer one in a hundred thousand, or one in a million prayers - odds so small that they aren't visible on a d20, but can be parts of stories told because it does happen on rare occasions.Or maybe the gods only work subtly - your prayer for a good harvest might work out if you start praying before you plant, and the gods can work in small things like a bit of rain here, and a bit of sun there, so by the time harvest comes around, maybe it was the gods, or maybe it was going to happen anyway.  But if you pray for good harvest before walking out into the field to reap in the autumn, that's just not going to work.Which is to say, we are not limited to the simple yes/no dichotomy.  There are options.</blockquote>

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