Level
2nd
Casting Time
1 Minute
Ritual
Range/Area
Self
Components
V, S, M *
Duration
Instantaneous
School
Divination
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Foreknowledge
You receive an omen from an otherworldly entity about the results of a course of action that you plan to take within the next 30 minutes. The DM chooses the omen from the Omens table.
| Omen | For Results That Will Be... |
|---|---|
| Weal | Good |
| Woe | Bad |
| Weal and woe | Good and bad |
| Indifference | Neither good nor bad |
The spell doesn’t account for circumstances, such as other spells, that might change the results.
If you cast the spell more than once before finishing a Long Rest, there is a cumulative 25 percent chance for each casting after the first that you get no answer.
* - (specially marked sticks, bones, cards, or other divinatory tokens worth 25+ GP)
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Posted Dec 14, 2024What kind of "Otherworldly entity" would this entail?
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Posted Dec 18, 2024Some gods have dominion over fate. The Raven Queen (goddess of death, fate, and winter, Savras (god of wizards, divination, fate, and truth), Tyche (goddess of fortune) although she did split into Tymora (goddess of good luck) and Beshaba (goddess of misfortune), and Ioun (goddess of knowledge, skill, and prophecy).
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Posted Mar 6, 2025Depends on the caster... could be a deity, a patron, an elemental, a fey, a dragon... whatever makes sense flavor-wise
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Posted Mar 27, 2025Noticed in the character creator when you try to add this spell, it says 11min cast time instead of the "1min + 10min" like other ritual spells. Guess someone messed up in the editing since here on the spell page shows the correct casting time
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Posted Jul 15, 2025The problem with this spell is that I, the DM, may not know the future in a game revolving around dice and random events.
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Posted Jul 18, 2025How do you roleplay this? I feel like just telling the characters, "Weal," or "Woe," is lame, but also telling them that the plan is good or bad could be lame.
What have you done with this spell?
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Posted Oct 23, 2025Depends on the caster. For a cleric, it would mean contacting their god or one of their god's servants (like an angel that serves the god). For a wizard or warlock, it would mean contacting an extraplanar entity (fey, fiend, dragon, spirit of a long-dead wizard or sage, any entity with sufficient knowledge or magic powers). For a druid, it would mean communing with the forces of nature, and the omen could be in the form of a natural force like a pattern in the clouds, stars, plants, or animal calls.