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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5467840" data-attributes="member: 98255">The solution in our group to encourage their use was not so much giving away the feat for free, but tinkering with the cost of using them. If you only have so much gold in a given level, players are reluctant to spend it on a one-shot ritual that may or may not even work the way you hoped in your situation, and the ones that are almost pure RP and fluff will simply never see use. I understand why the rules have to be written that way, but most of my group didn't like it.Here's what we did:Learning a ritual, as in buying the formula, costs book price. Additionally, you need a "ritual kit," which costs the same amount of gold as your highest-cost ritual (you need to keep this up-to-date when you learn new rituals).When you cast a ritual, you spend healing surges. A ritual of your level costs two healing surges, plus any foci or additional surges specified. Rituals have their surge costs reduced if you are sufficiently higher in level than the ritual. Heroic Tier rituals of your level -3 cost one surge less, and Heroic Tier rituals of your level -6 cost two surges less. At Paragon, the level threshold becomes Level -4 and -8, and Level -5 and -10 at Epic Tier.So far we have only played in Heroic Tier with this houserule, but it works fantastically well. Rituals get used often, but not abused because nobody wants to get caught with not enough surges left for combats and failed skill challenges.I think the key with this one is the fact that instead of using gold, a finite resource (by the book), this rule instead makes use of an infinitely replenishing one, and thus characters are less "stingy" with their use. Granted, we have many other uses for Healing Surges in this campaign (such as recharging powers, recovering HPs even during extended rests, and adding bonuses to dice rolls), so burning all your surges on powerful rituals is far from being a "given."</blockquote>

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