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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5086067" data-attributes="member: 58197">I think what it comes down to is that a lot of rituals just aren't very good. They cost too much and take too long for the effect you get. It's not worth casting 'em.The ritual system represents a decisive break with the old Vancian approach in which spells are presumed to be available daily and castable in a matter of seconds. WotC now has a defined category of spells that can only be cast outside of combat and have a strict limiting factor preventing casual use. This opens up the possibility of magic with truly staggering effects--the sort of spells you see in mythology and fantasy fiction.What do we get instead? A box of bland utility spells.(The insane price curve doesn't help with this. Because of level-based hyperinflation, rituals that cost an arm and a leg at Heroic tier become trivial to cast by Epic, so the limiting factor doesn't limit as well as it should.)</blockquote>