Stupid Question of the Day: Rituals

[aurance]

Like a 4th level ritual giving access to pretty much whatever you want for a fist full of gold coins. It's like God's own vending machine.

Only a critical lack of imagination would produce a scenario where, narratively, some gold disappears and magic appears in its place all the time because the rules infer a certain equivalency. The rules are a framework for a story, not ends unto themselves.

 

[CapnZapp]

Everything in 4E is in my campaign assumed to be readily available and stocked in sufficient supply at the local store on a level-appropriate basis available for purchase if the players can afford it with their gold which has been given to them in a carefully balanced amount.

Corrected that for you.

Generally, allowing the players to turn Enchant Magic Item ritual to a vending machine of every item they've ever read about - even if the characters have no experience with the in-game properties whatsoever - is a recipe for disaster. That's equivalent to the 3E Druid who had all the properties of all the MM monsters at his disposal, including monsters noone has ever heard of in his or her part of the campaign world. Don't go there.