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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falling Icicle" data-source="post: 6045750" data-attributes="member: 17077">No, I didn't get it wrong. I'm well aware that, in the current system, the primary benefit to rituals is that you don't need to prepare them (there's also the benefits of reduced casting time and cost, but the cost is going away). However, much has changed and much is going to change. With the enormous reduction in daily spell slots, wizards just can't afford to prepare highly situational spells anymore. I rarely even see such spells prepared in all my years of playing 3.x and Pathfinder, where wizards get many more spell slots. And since most of those highly situational spells have a ritual option, it makes it an even worse choice to spend one of your precious few daily spell slots on it.Free rituals is not my idea, it's Mike Mearls' idea. Just saying.Now that that's cleared up, as someone who played 4e with house-ruled free rituals, I never ran into that problem. If it takes a wizard 10 minutes to unlock a door, the rogue isn't outshined. The biggest balancing factor to rituals has always been the lengthy casting time. Puting a gp cost on all of them just makes players not want to use them at all.No thanks. I like wizards that can collect libraries full of spells.</blockquote>