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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9754721" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Sounds to me like you are presuming alignment and then using it to derive other things.Perhaps it would be better to start from what tricking people is like? Pranks aren't chaos, they're just frivolity. "Dismantling of hierarchies" is often done specifically by bending the system back upon itself.Again, you're not talking about tricksters--people who hoodwink others for some benefit or advantage. You're talking about anarchists. An anarchist need not be a trickster at all. In fact, I would say most anarchists aren't. Likewise, most tricksters aren't anarchists. Some are quite happy to exploit flaws in an existing system to enrich themselves without bending the knee to said system.Remember, Anansi is a trickster. Crow is a trickster. Maui is a trickster. There are tons of trickster deities that aren't interested in tearing down any systems. Heck, several mythologies have a trickster deity as the creator of humanity--or, at the very least, the happy tutor of humanity, giving us the wily ways to survive in a world full of hostile environments and dangerous animals.Sure it does. You have to call up that energy from somewhere when you cast it. Prepping spells is unrelated to the actual energy of casting it.Nope! It just requires an "otherworldly entity". Nothing whatsoever is specified about deific anything, since druids and wizards can also cast it and they don't have any divine hierarchy to call upon. Specifically, the relevant spell text says: "You receive an omen from an otherworldly entity about the results of a course of action that you plan to take within the next 30 minutes. The DM chooses the omen from the Omens table."Perhaps it might have been otherwise in previous editions! But it isn't in 5e.It forces no god to do anything at all. It simply gets an accurate (albeit imprecise) answer from an "otherworldly entity" once per day, and then progressively higher risk of getting either a random result (5.0) or total silence (5.5), until, once you've cast it four times, it's guaranteed random/silent.</blockquote>

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