Which brings us right back to the problem of not being able to defeat casters without using magic ourselves.
And when was that a real factor?
Wizard spends some resources (spell slots) and learns an answer (god's opinion).
Other spends some resources (gold) and learns an answer (god's opinion told to him by a dancing naked women).
If you wanted the other side not to look for spellcaster resources maybe you're wizard shouldn't be looking at gods for resources hmm?
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I suggest 'Rarely' should be understood in this context. Not in the context of 20 identical COP in a row and all of them fail and saying, "Hey, that's not rare! Thats 20 times in a row."
Oh have we broken down to inserting our interpretations over each other now? Heres mine.
It is not question #4,589 from wizard "Bob of BG" being blocked thus asking more questions fixes stuff.
It is round #394,200,000 of wizard "Bob of BG"'s life being blocked thus no matter the number of questions asked about this 6 second period they all fail.
Deity Joe is talked into or feels the urge to block divinations, somethign he doesn't do often but like all things when he does he does it well and being used to being absolute law in the eyes of mortals and quite literately living in a 16 week section of time simultaneously, Joe doesn't even stop to ponder if small-as-a-bug wizard wants to define rarity a per question basis just becuase he thinks repeating the same exactly thing he died six seconds ago changes everything.
We know yours and theres will no FAQ published to answer who is right. Branching out for considerations, we do have the practicability to look at where COP falls on it's face when used like this. *shurgs*
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Omnipotent Source. Deities may not be, but the spell is.
COP being used to perceive future events is based on a deity's ability to perceive the future and not the spell's effects.
True answer is defined as
you get a true, one-word answer. Questions that cannot be answered in this way are answered randomly.If the deity doesn't know, for any of the practical reasons I've covered, or just plain doesn't care to know it fails.
Branching out form there falls into TO material, like how you can graft an obscene amount of grafts that cannot realistically fit on your body for over a million attacks per round or sharing damage back and forth creates an infinite knowledge skill bonus to know everything about everything instantly and you're in the wrong subforum to be talking about stuff like that.
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As for killing the Wizard's clones. I'd be willing to kill orphans for XP just as easy as I would stinky kobolds or imaginary wizards. XP is XP and I thank you for the perpetual XP source more than anything else.