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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5376513" data-attributes="member: 82106">Ahhh, OK. Yes, I agree with you. I think that is a lot of the reason. Rituals are stuck off in the very back of the PHB on the far side of a chapter that is rarely ever referred to, sort of the 'attic' of the game. I don't know if folding them into the power system would bring them to the forefront or not, but at least it couldn't make them LESS prominent. I think part of the problem is the way they are handled on the character sheet TBH. somewhere back on page 2 you get a bare list of the names of the rituals you have in your book. If you want to actually USE one you have to go dig up the correct book and look it up, or bring it up in the Compendium. Most players have their powers on cards so they can refer to the (slightly abbreviated) text right there without page flipping. Rituals obviously won't fit on a card and take up a decent amount of space, but it WOULD be nice if there was an option to print out your ritual book in CB. In a sense 4e rituals are still stuck back in the days of what all spell casting was in days of yore. I think that really tends to make them a bother and players hate bother. Then toss on a cost, however trivial, and the thought that goes through the player's head is "Oh, heck, I could go dig through the book and find out if one of these rituals would help me, but that's a pain and on top of that it will cost some gold." So they just don't bother. Hmmm, maybe I'll just make a ritual book printer-outer program. THAT should be an afternoon's work.</blockquote>

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