Arctic Wolf
First Post
I scanned the title threads and haven't seen anything in particular focusing on how rituals would be done. As we all know the gold and time aspect of rituals are annoying and seemingly unneeded. I know that my DM just lets us use rituals by doing skill checks since it is easier to do. What I was thinking that we take away the Ritual Caster feat and just make it so everyone can use rituals, but we can limit it by having a new resource to use.
I would start by breaking rituals into three different types: Arcane, Divine, and Martial (I think that the martial practices are interesting but may just be me). Then depending on the class and race they choose, they get a certain number of arcane, divine, and martial ritual points to use for rituals, which will have point values, and they are determind in a similar way we do for healing surges.
That way any person can use them and its more expensive, in terms of points, for characters of a different source to use ones outside of it like a cleric trying to use an arcane ritual or a mage trying to use a martial one. Hybrids of 2 different types would be a bit above average in terms of the 2 but not as focused as one who is of 2 of the same sources, which would be like a normal class, and multiclass would only get a bonus if they decided to mutliclass into a different power source to avoid them improving the power source better then a normal class. As you level you could decrease the cost of of rituals below a certain level so that way you wouldn't need to worry about increasing them through leveling, but you could do that also, so whatever floats your boat.
So what do you all think?
I would start by breaking rituals into three different types: Arcane, Divine, and Martial (I think that the martial practices are interesting but may just be me). Then depending on the class and race they choose, they get a certain number of arcane, divine, and martial ritual points to use for rituals, which will have point values, and they are determind in a similar way we do for healing surges.
That way any person can use them and its more expensive, in terms of points, for characters of a different source to use ones outside of it like a cleric trying to use an arcane ritual or a mage trying to use a martial one. Hybrids of 2 different types would be a bit above average in terms of the 2 but not as focused as one who is of 2 of the same sources, which would be like a normal class, and multiclass would only get a bonus if they decided to mutliclass into a different power source to avoid them improving the power source better then a normal class. As you level you could decrease the cost of of rituals below a certain level so that way you wouldn't need to worry about increasing them through leveling, but you could do that also, so whatever floats your boat.
So what do you all think?