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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 4451785" data-attributes="member: 5889">This is a good response, and echoes my beliefs as well. There's just something a little...lame about spending an hour ritual full of big motions and lots of expensive components to get 12 seconds worth of mojo. That's something out of a funny cartoon, not an epic quest.To me, if WOTC feels that the current scrying ritual is too powerful with a longer duration, I can understand that. Make it harder to scry, force me to have a bit of hair from the person I want to see, make it so I can only do the ritual under the light of a full moon or something. I can accept that, and to me that just heightens the flavor of the ritual. But give me those restrictions and then give me my scry!Further, as others have mentioned, the current ritual isn't useless, its just not good for traditional scrying. I'm fine with that too, but don't call it scry, because scry in dnd has always been about watching (I'm assuming, I'll let Diaglo come around and bonk me on the head and then tell me that in 1e you had to scry uphill both ways and you felt lucky casting the spell didn't send you to the negative energy plane).So if the current ritual isn't meant to be scrying, don't call it scrying. Its just a fact finding divination, and again I have no problem with that. So give me my longer duration, harder to use scry, and then rename this fact finding spell into something else. (Of course, I still think its a bit expensive even for that, but that's my personal belief).But the bottom line is, 30 seconds of time for a 1 hour ritual and a boatload of magic components isn't scrying.</blockquote>

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