So why can ANYONE use rituals?

[occam]

Apropos of nothing, Ruthless Egalitarian sounds like a nifty epic destiny.

Ruthless Egalitarianism is the new True Neutral!

Lawful Good < Good < Ruthlessly Egalitarian > Evil > Chaotic Evil

 

[Scribble]

Off topic here but:

JohnSnow you're in San Francisco? Small world.

 

[Harshax]

Anyone casting rituals if freaking awesome!

Now I can play a rogue-scholar. Or an Elric inspired adventurer.

EDIT: You can also remove Arcane and Divine power sources entirely, and very easily run a conan-esque game. Very, very, awesome.

 

[FireLance]

How hard can it be to say "Klaatu barada nikto", anyway?

And what's the worst that could happen?

 

[mach1.9pants]

ANYONE can't use rituals, only clr and wiz. For a ftr to use a ritual he spends time (well a feat) to learn it instead of learning to use 2 swords (or whatever). Seems a weird question to me

 

[Scribble]

How hard can it be to say "Klaatu barada nikto", anyway?

And what's the worst that could happen?

Whaaaaat?!?! I said it!!!

 

[ThirdWizard]

ANYONE can't use rituals, only clr and wiz. For a ftr to use a ritual he spends time (well a feat) to learn it instead of learning to use 2 swords (or whatever). Seems a weird question to me

Don't forget a feat for Skill Training (Arcane) or Skill Training (Religion).

 

[mach1.9pants]

Don't forget a feat for Skill Training (Arcane) or Skill Training (Religion).

Good point although he can cast the healing ones without them, heal is a ftr class skill.

As an aside do you have to be trained in a skill that is associatted with a ritual? Or can you use them untrained cos some don' need checks/rolls?

 

[IanB]

Forget players, this change is *completely awesome* from a DMing perspective. I love the fact that I can have non-spellcaster badguys do things like summon demons or raise the dead or whatever, it really opens up a huge amount of narrative space.

Any minor nitpicking I might want to do about player access is trivial compared to how great that is - but then I'm a ruthlessly egalitarian Berkeley grad, although I don't live in the city.

 

[Harshax]

Good point although he can cast the healing ones without them, heal is a ftr class skill.

No he can't. He still needs the Divine Ritual Feat. (unless it was a scroll)