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[doctorhook]

These are some errors/potential updates I noted about the rituals appearing in the "Ritually Speaking" article from Dragon Magazine #366. (Originally posted here, in the "New Rituaaaals" thread.)

I sort of expect these details to be updated by the time Dragon #366 is compiled at the end of the month. When they do change, lemme know and I'll update them (if I haven't already by then).

Originally Posted by doctorhook

Some possible errors I found skimming over the article.

Explorer's Fire:

- Should this ritual be in the "Deception" category instead of "Exploration"? It does, after all, conceal a campfire.
- "Key Skill: Arcana or Nature"; it doesn't say "(no check)", and yet there doesn't appear to be a check involved with the ritual. Error?

Scribe:

- Does not indicate "(no check)", but the check result doesn't seem to affect the ritual at all.

Stasis Shell:

- Again, no "(no check)", but the text doesn't indicate the effects of the check either.

UPDATE: (Based upon retrieved article from dndinsider.com at around 3:30PM MT, 14 Aug 08)

After looking through the article again, I'm not sure about the error I pointed out in Scribe. It doesn't say "no check", but the text isn't totally clear. There are two options, depending upon how you read the ritual:

• A: The "Key Skill" line incorrectly lacks the words, "(no check)". The ritual operates exactly as written, with the "magical scribe" having a Perception bonus equal to the ritual caster's Arcana bonus; OR

• B: The "Key Skill" line is correct. In the ritual text, the phrase, "Its Perception bonus is equal to your Arcana bonus," should be changed to read, "Its Perception bonus is equal to your Arcana check."

Option A maintains the ritual as it is currently written, while option B improves the effectiveness of the ritual by 1d20 and more closely resembles the mechanics of other rituals, (in that any skill checks made by the effects of the ritual itself equal the result of your Key Skill check instead of just your Key Skill bonus). Either way, something isn't quite right with Scribe as written. I think B is how the ritual was supposed to be.