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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9755265" data-attributes="member: 177">Maybe this was brought up before and I missed it...This was talking about the Commune spell, right?The spell whose description starts with, "You contact a deity or a divine proxy and ask up to three questions ..."So, I guess, never mind that the spell description has a solution for this - that gods have proxies to handle the small stuff.You are presenting what seems to me to be a contradiction - a deity whose attention is stretched to its limits, but still has attention to spare for minutiae.  The deity has to, and is capable of, handling millions of processes, but is then so stretched that it cannot tolerate waste, so it puts even more attention on that one guy, and how his requests are getting frivolous. If the Commune spell is such a burden for a deity to handle... why do they make that spell available at all? How the deity handled a cleric in Faerun isn't going to be obvious to another cleric in Greyhawk.  So, how does this word get around for there to be a deterrent effect to keep the shlubs from doing it?  Is there like, a multi-planar deific social media account for clerics where the gods post, "Smote Jacob the Pedantic for playing 20 Questions with Commune," or something?</blockquote>