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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4176975" data-attributes="member: 22779">Oh, come on.  Do you REALLY think that the designers are that incompetent that they would simply publish a list of rituals with no idea of how they were built?((You have no idea how hard I'm resisting pointing to other editions here.))In any event, we KNOW for an absolute fact that there are at least guidelines which will detail the relative power levels of rituals (raise dead ritual) and that monsters will have access to rituals (lich phylactery).  So, that's two things that we know right off the bat.However, I notice that you still failed to answer my earlier question.  What is the difference between "Oh, the bad guy has a magic item that lets him do X" and "The bad guy has a ritual that lets him do X"?  And, how is one good and another bad?</blockquote>