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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IceFractal" data-source="post: 4423754" data-attributes="member: 27704">Some of the rituals are great (Arcane Barrier, for instance), and most are at least useful in the right circumstances, but a few a really hampered by a 10 minute casting time, to the extent of being nearly useless.Excavate - You know what does this without costing 70gp each time?  A shovel.  While there are no rules for digging pits, 10 minutes seems adequate to dig a single square pit in earth and loose stone, especially if the rest of the party helps out.  And since Craft/Profession skills have been removed, your character is an expert ditchdigger as long as you say they are.Wizard's Curtain - This one is worse.  While it takes 30 gp and 10 minutes to set up a mostly opaque curtain, setting up a tent or actual curtain takes less time, less money, and is actually opaque.Wizard's Escape is by no means useless, but the 10 minute casting time makes it less an "Escape" and more "Wizard's Sneaky Entry".  And how the heck would you escape from jail with it?  If the jail is letting people bring Residuum in and perform rituals, they might as well just leave the doors wide open.Overland Flight is interesting in that it directly lines up with (and is worse than) Cloud Chariot, at almost the same level.  I guess this sets a precident that rituals will be weaker than powers of that level.</blockquote>