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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4506123" data-attributes="member: 62992">Rituals are a great idea but the time and material component cost nerf them badly.  I am thinking of allowing a bit of vancian magic back in to 4e, to do with rituals. If during any rest, a spell caster completes 95% of any ritual, he can trigger its effect anytime and only pays the material component cost if he actually triggers the ritual. Ritual casting is a full round action in combat and its use prevents use of a daily power until after the next extended rest. A caster can also only pre-prepare one ritual at a time in this way, although un-triggered rituals can be freely exchanged at any rest without triggering the material component cost. A mage can thus cast a number of pre-prepared rituals a day in combat (or other situations where time is a constaint) that is equal to the number of daily powers he possesses; but each casting reduces his daily spell allocation for that day by one. I would just like to get the flavourful combat effects of magic back into the game without over-powering wizards again. Certain rituals could also be absolutely disallowed from such pre-preparation. The good thing is that any class using rituals could also benefit; so balance should not be so much of an issue, particularly if the caster gives up his/her daillies. The material component cost should also limit the abuse this is open to. I have not played alot of 4E so how do people think this would work? This ability to pre-prepare rituals could actually also be made into a feat requiring feat investment as well.</blockquote>

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