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Alchemy instead of Ritual Casting.
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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4949437" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I'd say strictly going by RAW the answer would be no, if you swap Ritual Caster for Alchemy you just wouldn't get your bonus rituals since you don't have a ritual book. Of course that probably isn't the best answer and I think I'd be happy to do a swap like that. </p><p></p><p>As for clerics... hmmm. Generally speaking alchemy doesn't seem like much of a "clericy" kind of thing, but that aside I don't see why if there was a cleric of some appropriate belief system that they couldn't have 2 appropriate alchemical formulae instead of rituals. In a sense though rituals for clerics seem sort of integral to them acting in their priestly capacity. I guess its really just up to you to decide what makes sense in a given setting. </p><p></p><p>I presume you mean by bardic ones that have key skills which bards would likely take. The answer is no, the key skills are just mostly arcana, nature, religion, and thievery. However its really never explained what the point of key skills for alchemy is. ALL alchemical formulae have them listed as (no check), so the only point of listing them in theory is for ingredients. Oddly though they list several key skills (thievery being prominent) which don't associate with any type of ingredient and thus we are actually a bit in the dark as to what that means.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 4949437, member: 82106"] I'd say strictly going by RAW the answer would be no, if you swap Ritual Caster for Alchemy you just wouldn't get your bonus rituals since you don't have a ritual book. Of course that probably isn't the best answer and I think I'd be happy to do a swap like that. As for clerics... hmmm. Generally speaking alchemy doesn't seem like much of a "clericy" kind of thing, but that aside I don't see why if there was a cleric of some appropriate belief system that they couldn't have 2 appropriate alchemical formulae instead of rituals. In a sense though rituals for clerics seem sort of integral to them acting in their priestly capacity. I guess its really just up to you to decide what makes sense in a given setting. I presume you mean by bardic ones that have key skills which bards would likely take. The answer is no, the key skills are just mostly arcana, nature, religion, and thievery. However its really never explained what the point of key skills for alchemy is. ALL alchemical formulae have them listed as (no check), so the only point of listing them in theory is for ingredients. Oddly though they list several key skills (thievery being prominent) which don't associate with any type of ingredient and thus we are actually a bit in the dark as to what that means. [/QUOTE]
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