No Rituals for Warlocks?

[Walking Dad]

Just noticed something: Both the Cleric and the Wizard list "Ritual Casting" in "Race and Class Features". But the Warlock does not. So no minor/ out of encounter effects for Warlocks?

 

[Falling Icicle]

I noticed that as well. I'm hoping that either it was an accidental omission or that it's something a warlock can chose to pick up. I'll be sad if Warlocks can't use dark rituals to call evil tentacle gods to the world and that sort of thing.

 

[Stogoe]

There's a pic in R&C of a Fey Warlock performing a ritual, so I hope it's something they can pick up easily.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Maybe not at first level?

And D&D XP didn't highlight rituals at all, correct? So we know virtually nothing about how rituals work.

 

[Atlatl Jones]

I really hope that warlocks get rituals. I love the flavor of the warlock, but it's the noncombat spells siloed in rituals that I most enjoy about playing a spellcaster.

If they don't have rituals, I hope it's fairly easy to gain access to another classes rituals through multiclassing.

 

[am181d]

Rituals may be feat-based. Personally, I'd like to see rogues performing rituals...

 

[Kwalish Kid]

Rituals may be feat-based. Personally, I'd like to see rogues performing rituals...

I'm right there with you. I think that there must be some multiclassing rules to allow characters of any class to learn the techniques of ritual magic.

 

[ZombieRoboNinja]

It looks to me like you just have to be trained in Arcana to use rituals. The wizard and cleric demo characters are both trained, but the warlord isn't, so no rituals for him.

So if you wanted to make a rogue (or fighter or whatever) who could use rituals, you'd have to take some kind of Skill Training feat (since it's not a class skill). This is assuming that you CAN take a feat to train a non-class skill, which seems like a reasonable assumption.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

That or you take a large penalty in casting a ritual if you have no Arcana knowledge.

I would love to see a rogue steal a scroll that has a ritual written down, then try with great trepidation to cast the ritual and ends up blowing up the whole block

 

[FourthBear]

If there aren't ways for rituals to be used by non-spellcasters, I'm definitely house-ruling them in. Just too many fun plot possibilities to restrict their use to wizards and clerics. Where would we be without the innocent little child sneaking into the forbidden library to read out of the big, scary book. Or the hapless farmer, last descendant of a great bloodline, who must be brought to the stone circle to compete a binding ritual before something breaks loose? Or the crime boss rogue who summons up fiends to his aid, getting way over his head.