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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9754719" data-attributes="member: 29398">I think we have vastly different ideas on what makes a trickster deity (or its followers) tick.Gaming the system would be the purview of, to use alignment terms, a Lawful Evil sort, or maybe Neutral Evil.  Chaotic Evil or Chaotic Neutral would more want to upend or destroy the system in favour of unpredictability, randomness, and chaos.A Chaotic Neutral trickster deity is out for chaos, pranks (whether harmful or not), practical jokes (ditto), and the dismantling of heirarchies and organized structures and systems wherever they may be found.  It's pretty easy to imagine CN trickster deities seeding things like Decks and Wands of Wonder into the world just for the chaos they cause.Casting Cure Xxxxx Wounds doesn't make a servant out of a Cleric's deity.  Other than granting the spells in the morning, neither the deity nor its assistants have to be further involved.Commune, however, is a different beast because in this case you in fact are forcing the direct involvement of the deity (or a high-placed associate) to provide the answers to the questions asked.As such, Commune is the only spell that forces God to answer the phone; and it's perfectly understandable if on receiving multiple such calls from the same Cleric in short order re what is in the grand scheme of things a trivial subject, God gets a bit hacked off.  Because here, you are treating God like a servant at your beck and call.</blockquote>

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