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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6235774" data-attributes="member: 1165">In 4e rules, you can perform a ritual with a scroll even if you know nothing about magic. You can know magic and just not have enough skill to understand what the ritual does. All you need is a "custom ritual".Note that most game material is written for players, not NPCs like the cultists, and players rarely use dangerous rituals. (Honestly, who has ever seen the Planar Binding spell cast in a campaign?)There are some dangerous rituals in 4e, with Adjure being the top of the list. (If you mess up the skill challenge to enslave the outsider, you become the slave.) Much like Planar Binding, you don't see it often, because players do not like taking those kinds of risk.That doesn't make sense within the rules though. In 3rd Edition, multiclassing from wizard to warlock just makes you weaker. In 4e, you have described the process of taking a multiclassing feat (or the backstory of hybridizing, a part of the rules I do not support) and it doesn't need extra rules. The "forbidden ritual" is just flavor text. (It won't happen often either, as now the wizard has two key stats.)He took Skill Training (Arcana) and then Ritual Caster. Many clever scoundrels who have been at their jobs a long time do not pick up magic.Is the warrior by herself? D&D is a team game. If she doesn't have Ritual Casting (or even Arcana or Religion), then how does she recall enough about the ritual to perform it? That's power for free. Maybe it's great in a novel, but not in a game.Either these rituals don't do anything (and his companions are right to laugh at him) or he's actually performing rituals but not in a way that lets his more civilized companions know that they're working. (If he keeps performing the Hand of Fate or Augury ritual in private, this makes a lot of sense. Or maybe right in front of the sneering cleric, who realizes that there's something going on after all... with a successful Religion check.)</blockquote>

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