# Invoking Deities

Deities can give their favor in specific ways, but invoking their name can give you a more general boon. Whenever you would perform a task that falls in line with the god's ethos, goals or tenets, you can choose to invoke their name as a free action. 

This could mean a contest of strength for The Cataclysm, a persuasion check made against a fiend for Brazzeria, or a survival check to track down a hunter exterminating wildlife for Mother Earth. The DM is the final arbiter to decide if your request is answered. When you invoke a deity, you expend a use of prayer and gain a d8 to any single d20 roll (minus something like a random chart).

If you invoke and your deity disapproves, you lose that use of prayer, and you get an impression of why your request for aid failed. 

You can only invoke a deity that you have curried favor for in most circumstances. When you invoke, you cannot do so again for 1 minute.