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<blockquote data-quote="Aenghus" data-source="post: 5626812" data-attributes="member: 2656">The lowest level teleportation ritual is the Level 8 Linked Portal ritual in the PHB. The target of the ritual needs to be a permanent teleportation circle known to the caster -&nbsp; ritualists automatically learn the sigils of two teleportation circles on learning the ritual, and can find or reseach more. Level 8 is lower than Level 9, which is when the Lvl 5 teleport spell became castable in earlier editions.4e has made a deliberate design decision to put more limits on teleportation magic in the default rules than earlier editions of D&amp;D. The Linked Portal ritual takes 10 minutes to cast, and destinations are a limited number of fixed points (the permanent teleportation circles) which tend to be well guarded.In practise I find 4e teleportation rituals to work pretty well. There is much less need to resort to plot devices to limit magical travel, as the most abusive previous uses - teleport into hostile areas, particulary as part of a scry'n'fry - are much more difficult to carry out. When Linked Portal becomes available it's still worth casting for long distance travel. At higher levels the cost is trivial, and the PCs can make their own teleportation circle at 15th level.In addition to rituals posted by other posters, there are rituals for fast travel via the Shadowfell and Feywild that don't depend on teleportation circles. Magical portals may allow instantaneous travel, but may need some sort of key, and may have other limits on their operation - limited number of activations in a time period, limited time open, limits on who can use it, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aenghus, post: 5626812, member: 2656"] The lowest level teleportation ritual is the Level 8 [I]Linked Portal[/I] ritual in the PHB. The target of the ritual needs to be a permanent teleportation circle known to the caster - ritualists automatically learn the sigils of two teleportation circles on learning the ritual, and can find or reseach more. Level 8 is lower than Level 9, which is when the Lvl 5 teleport spell became castable in earlier editions. 4e has made a deliberate design decision to put more limits on teleportation magic in the default rules than earlier editions of D&D. The Linked Portal ritual takes 10 minutes to cast, and destinations are a limited number of fixed points (the permanent teleportation circles) which tend to be well guarded. In practise I find 4e teleportation rituals to work pretty well. There is much less need to resort to plot devices to limit magical travel, as the most abusive previous uses - teleport into hostile areas, particulary as part of a scry'n'fry - are much more difficult to carry out. When Linked Portal becomes available it's still worth casting for long distance travel. At higher levels the cost is trivial, and the PCs can make their own teleportation circle at 15th level. In addition to rituals posted by other posters, there are rituals for fast travel via the Shadowfell and Feywild that don't depend on teleportation circles. Magical portals may allow instantaneous travel, but may need some sort of key, and may have other limits on their operation - limited number of activations in a time period, limited time open, limits on who can use it, etc. [/QUOTE]

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