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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 5413199" data-attributes="member: 5868">I agree -- the rituals design was one of the things that attracted me to 4E, as it restored a lot of the flexibiilty to spellcasting classes for non-combat events that I was afraid would get thrown out.  Rituals still have that "look what clever idea I came up with for a floating disc" that D&D has had since its inception.Ironically, my original question was prompted by reading Tomb of Horrors, which I just picked up.  It has several spots that mention rituals or where rituals provide very useful shortcuts for the adventure -- it's designed with them in mind (Go Mouseferatu!).  It then occurred to me that I couldn't remember if they'd introduced any new or modified rituals in HotFL, so I picked that book back up, and when I couldn't find anything, went to the next book, and eventually to the RC ... and ended up here, confused.  (Yeah, I'm aware ToH pre-dates the Essentials products).I find the design decision in the RC a bit odd, to retain the throw-away ritual reference.  If you have the other 4E books already, you don't need the reference.  If you don't (as a new player coming in to Essentials), that sort of reference will just be confusing, because there is nothing to point you at a source.  I'm surprised WotC passed up the opportunity to pimp some of their core products.I'm still confused, but now I see the confusion is intentional.</blockquote>