When using Contact Other Plane, do you need to be familiar with the "mysterious entity?" Or are you simply sending a question out into the ether, and someone picks up the phone?
Why would this "mysterious entity" give you useful or truthful answers, and why would they waste their time? And how would they know answers, especially if they're on another plane? I would almost always expect five answers of "unclear."
Overall, Contact Other Plane seems like a more risky and less reliable version of Commune. What am I missing?
Hmm, it doesn't say whether or not you have to know what you are calling. I'd let players specify, or otherwise get someone random (ymmv).
As to how they would know: the spell gives examples as demigods and dead sages. Demigods are just a lesser tier of god and would know about events near/involving their clerics or places of worship. Sages would still have memories of when they lived and/or could apply their knowledge as best they can. Anything else (Angel, fiend, aberration, etc) would have at least some information of the material plane.
Basically, any questions involving logic or history are likely to get an answer.
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When using Contact Other Plane, do you need to be familiar with the "mysterious entity?" Or are you simply sending a question out into the ether, and someone picks up the phone?
Why would this "mysterious entity" give you useful or truthful answers, and why would they waste their time? And how would they know answers, especially if they're on another plane? I would almost always expect five answers of "unclear."
Overall, Contact Other Plane seems like a more risky and less reliable version of Commune. What am I missing?
Hmm, it doesn't say whether or not you have to know what you are calling. I'd let players specify, or otherwise get someone random (ymmv).
As to how they would know: the spell gives examples as demigods and dead sages. Demigods are just a lesser tier of god and would know about events near/involving their clerics or places of worship. Sages would still have memories of when they lived and/or could apply their knowledge as best they can. Anything else (Angel, fiend, aberration, etc) would have at least some information of the material plane.
Basically, any questions involving logic or history are likely to get an answer.