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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4613146" data-attributes="member: 54846">I personally have no problem with wizards Raising Dead. D&D is one of the few things related to Fantasy that makes a firm divide between Arcane and Divine Magic; meddling with the Dead is quite firmly in the archetypical 'Wizard' department, so I'm rather pleased that wizards could raise someone. Secondly, I personally have no problem with a lack of training allowing folks to cast from scrolls. This way, if your party doesn't have an Arcane class, you can still cast rituals (because the greatest bulk of rituals are Arcane related). Mind you, you still have to make a skill check (if I recall correctly), so if you're not trained in Arcana, and you need to make a check, you're rather snookered. From a narrative point of view, I consider an untrained individual casting a ritual from a scroll much like the "Wizardly apprentice/foolhardy youth getting the ancient spellbook and unwisely casting a spell from it". Although there is no relative danger to it in 4e, I could see you houseruling an unpredictable (or at least annoying) result due to the lack of expertise (I.e. training).But, your house rule shouldn't effect the balance too much. Granted, I've never actually seen PCs work to acquire ritual scrolls in the first place, so YMMV.</blockquote>