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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6554941" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Rituals are useful to the group, but provide very little individual character power. It's like asking if proficiency in thieves' tools is too powerful. It's nice for someone in the group to have it, but it rarely matters how many people have it, and it doesn't make the individual character seem much more powerful--just useful to the group.Also, I've noticed that players who come to 5e fresh from 3e-4e often have a knee-jerk reaction that certain things are too powerful. This is often because they haven't yet read through all the rules. This edition is chock full of things that would be extremely over-powered in 3e-4e. The balance is that the whole system is chock full of such things. Everyone gets them. It's not just one class, race, spell list, etc that has improved power levels compared to prior editions.Since determinations of whether or not something is overpowered rely on comparison with other similar things, you have to compare 5e to 5e, and not try to compare it with 3e-4e because it looks similar at first glance.Most people trying to nerf these particular aspects of warlock features are probably not quite up to speed about how we do things in 5e-ville.</blockquote>