Divination Level: Sor/Wiz 5 Components: V Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Personal Target: You Duration: Concentration
You send your mind to another plane of existence (an Elemental Plane or some plane farther removed) in order to receive advice and information from powers there. (See the accompanying table for possible consequences and results of the attempt.) The powers reply in a language you understand, but they resent such contact and give only brief answers to your questions. (All questions are answered with “yes,” “no,” “maybe,” “never,” “irrelevant,” or some other similar one-word answer.)
You must concentrate on maintaining the spell (a standard action) in order to ask questions at the rate of one per round. A question is answered by the power during the same round. For every two caster levels, you may ask one question.
Contact with minds far removed from your home plane increases the probability that you will incur a decrease to Intelligence and Charisma, but the chance of the power knowing the answer, as well as the probability of the entity answering correctly, are likewise increased by moving to distant planes.
Once the Outer Planes are reached, the power of the deity contacted determines the effects. (Random results obtained from the table are subject to the personalities of individual deities.)
On rare occasions, this divination may be blocked by an act of certain deities or forces.
For questions of normal difficulty, d% is rolled for the result shown on the table: {the table can be found in the SRD} For particularly difficult questions or particularly easy questions, a penalty or bonus may apply to the roll, but this penalty or bonus can only change the result between "True Answer" and "Don't Know" and between "Lie" and "Random Answer."