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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 5717135" data-attributes="member: 98008">I can see why a GM would be concerned about rituals. I carefully control which ones come into my game. I find they can really affect game balance more than most combat or utility abilities.Examples include:- Raise dead. In no campaign I ever run will a PC be able to bring people back from the dead at level 8 by spending 500gp.- Portal spells. If your not familiar with them and don't plan around them, you have to pull out a macguffin to stop PCs from ruining the plot you just made by teleporting from A to B. This rules out most "oh no we are lost in the forest" or "how will we get out of this sieged village" style adventures.- Social and language rituals. There seems to be little point in buying feats regarding learning languages and comprehending writing when a simple ritual can do so much of it.- Animal messenger, Sending etc. These just ruled out any "must get this message to the king" style adventure.Rituals are powerful to the extent of changing the actual plots that the GM can use without hand-waving away their usefulness. Keeping on top of all the options that the players have takes a lot of work to not find a plot made impotent.They are a throwback to when spell casters who survived leveling up were simply better than martial characters, with hundreds more options. The classes are balanced as is without giving some classes a suite of 50 more out-of-combat utility abilities.This being said, rituals can improve the game in many ways, giving both players and GMs options and making characters more characterful.</blockquote>

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