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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5413371" data-attributes="member: 82106">It helps, but the one issue is that because the RC didn't reprint the core rules for ritual casting and the DDI Compendium does not contain those rules there is actually one and only one source, a printed copy of a PHB1, which isn't that hard to get but isn't exactly a book that most players buying Essentials would expect to need and which they're rather unlikely to pay $25 or thereabouts for just to get that one thing. I mean to ME it is no big deal. It is less than nothing, but it is kind of hard to argue that a game option that as of now doesn't exist in a current product and is actually basically 'written out' of what is the current product is supported to the same degree as things that are in Essentials. I'd also like to say that the 'ritual like' class features of Mage and Warpriest are are far cry from an adequate replacement. You get access to a very small number of 'rituals' with no choices and the ones that are available really seem to only exist because mechanically the game really requires them. All the 100's of other cool and flavorful choices are gone. Plenty of people have complained about 4e's support for non-combat options and unfavorably compared it to PF, and here's WotC for whatever reason cutting out more options. I certainly hope some kind of reference for ritual casting support will continue to be made available in the future.</blockquote>