Prophecy and Prediction

Divination is fun as long as you manage to keep prophecies blurry enough.
In L5R we used following tactic:
1) Get some actual divination (I Ching is fast and has some good wording)
2) If player succeeded in divination roll - say which part of the wording relates to things that are likely to happen next in the game.

>>51629155

I guess that keys into a big question when it comes to prophecy in RPGs.

Do you do player declared stuff, letting the player have an influence on future events, or do you instead treat it as an opportunity to ask questions of the GM?

I tend to prefer the former model, but I know there are examples of both across a lot of different games.

>>51628536
How do the pendulum and number cube work, for divination?

>>51630271
Not sure about the pendulum, but
>number cube
I think that might be Nine Palaces for 奇門遁甲?

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>>51630271

>>51630271
>>51631630

Numerology, maybe?

>>51632662
Apparently it's a Pythagorean Psychomatrix.

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>>51628536
>Party of detectives can't find a pair of people using the same tier of magic they have access to
>Contrive a basic evil boss monster hunt at the service of an oracle to give them the next step in the puzzle

>>51637705
nah cause we are talking bout these sytems in traditional games