Jowgen
2016-09-12, 07:01 PM
The short and sweet version: If an andenturer found himself in the position to receive the benefit of a Commune spell an arbitrarily large number of times (over a the course of, lets say, several weeks), what course of questioning do you personally think would be best for him to employ? What sort of things could/should an adventurer investigate given the opportunity to endlessly pick a Deity's brain?
In a recent thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?499714-Arch-Lantern-Corps-a-silly-Create-Lantern-Archon-optimization-exercise-of-mine)of mine, I was introduced to the idea of exploiting the Dreamtelling feat (HoH). If my reading is correct, then being able to reliably make a DC 45 Knowledge (the planes) check allows one to interpret a dream oneself (or someone esle) has had to gain information equivalent to a Commune spell. As in, a Yes/No answer to a 1/CL specific questions answers by a philosophically allied deity.
The way this feat works is pretty vague, in that it doesn't specify how/whether you can specify what kind of questions you ask; not to mention no CL-equivalent is given. The lesser effects of this feat are equivalent to Augury and Divination, which respectively tell you "whether a particular action will bring good or bad results for you in the immediate future" and provide a "useful piece of advice in reply to a question concerning a specific goal, event, or activity that is to occur". Considering that all of these spells require you to specify what you're asking for information about, I don't see how the feat can work unless you decide on a question before sleeping.
The Dreamscion feat (SoS) combos with this feat quite well, in that it allows you to enter "a condition of conscious dreaming that focuses the world around you even as it reveals your own inner self", a limited number of times per day. This a) makes Dreamtelling accessible to non-dreaming creature, and b) makes the notion of consciously asking questions in a dream more intuitively sensible.
Now for this thread, I am assuming that one indeed does get to specify a question to receive a deity-informed-level answer (or multiple, if someone can find a reason to tie the 1/CL question ammount to this) to. This means would mean that anyone with this feat could essentially receive an endless stream of Commune spells, just so long as they have the time to dream regularly and/or use Dreamscion and/or ask other people to properly explain their dreams. So: [back to the short/sweet version].
In a recent thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?499714-Arch-Lantern-Corps-a-silly-Create-Lantern-Archon-optimization-exercise-of-mine)of mine, I was introduced to the idea of exploiting the Dreamtelling feat (HoH). If my reading is correct, then being able to reliably make a DC 45 Knowledge (the planes) check allows one to interpret a dream oneself (or someone esle) has had to gain information equivalent to a Commune spell. As in, a Yes/No answer to a 1/CL specific questions answers by a philosophically allied deity.
The way this feat works is pretty vague, in that it doesn't specify how/whether you can specify what kind of questions you ask; not to mention no CL-equivalent is given. The lesser effects of this feat are equivalent to Augury and Divination, which respectively tell you "whether a particular action will bring good or bad results for you in the immediate future" and provide a "useful piece of advice in reply to a question concerning a specific goal, event, or activity that is to occur". Considering that all of these spells require you to specify what you're asking for information about, I don't see how the feat can work unless you decide on a question before sleeping.
The Dreamscion feat (SoS) combos with this feat quite well, in that it allows you to enter "a condition of conscious dreaming that focuses the world around you even as it reveals your own inner self", a limited number of times per day. This a) makes Dreamtelling accessible to non-dreaming creature, and b) makes the notion of consciously asking questions in a dream more intuitively sensible.
Now for this thread, I am assuming that one indeed does get to specify a question to receive a deity-informed-level answer (or multiple, if someone can find a reason to tie the 1/CL question ammount to this) to. This means would mean that anyone with this feat could essentially receive an endless stream of Commune spells, just so long as they have the time to dream regularly and/or use Dreamscion and/or ask other people to properly explain their dreams. So: [back to the short/sweet version].