Alchemy and Free Ritual Caster

[andarilhor]

In the Alchemy feat on AV says if you receive the Ritual Caster feat as a class feature, you can take the Alchemy feat instead, so and about the special class features revolving the free ritual caster?

The wizard is the easy one, just receive the same number of formulas instead of rituals. But the Cleric and the Artificer receive 2 rituals, being one of then specific for class purposes, they receive any 2 formulas or receive 2 formulas, being one specific? And the Bard and the Druid who has special features on certain rituals... they can receive those special features (or similar ones) if they take alchemy instead of ritual caster?

What do you think guys!?

 

[CapnZapp]

I think replacing each free ritual with a free alchemical formula is a good, straight-forward solution.

There is no direct counterpart to the rule that Clerics etc get a specific ritual, so just grant any formula instead (of the same level, i.e. level 1).

If you're a stickler for "balance", you could determine which rituals you would have given a new PC, sum up the total gold they would have cost, and then give that amount to the alchemist to spend on acquiring formulas.

This if you believe the average market price of a ritual is sufficiently higher than that of an alchemical formula that just substituting on a 1:1 basis would disadvantage the character who takes Alchemist instead of Ritual Caster.

But it sure would be simpler to just say "pick any two first level formulas"...