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What was the big difference between 4e and "essentials"?
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<blockquote data-quote="MwaO" data-source="post: 7451756" data-attributes="member: 12749"><p>Also three more notes:</p><p>It was reasonably trivial for a non-caster to pick up rituals via feat. So while casters often had an inherent advantage by starting off with ritual spells, they wouldn't necessarily maintain a large edge.</p><p></p><p>The cost of rituals over time went exponentially towards zero as you gained levels above the cost of the ritual. If you're finding 10000 gold per adventure and a ritual costs 100 gold, it isn't a big deal to cast it a few times. Not a problem unique to 4e either — Pearls of Power are eventually super cheap to craft in 3.5e, Healing Potions are 50 gp when high level PCs can typically expect to find 280000 gold per adventure. 5600 healing potions goes a really long way to stopping hps as a resource drain at high level.</p><p></p><p>The cost of casting rituals on scrolls went exponentially towards zero. When you're finding 50000 gold per adventure and a scroll costs 500 gold, not a big deal to cast it a few times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MwaO, post: 7451756, member: 12749"] Also three more notes: It was reasonably trivial for a non-caster to pick up rituals via feat. So while casters often had an inherent advantage by starting off with ritual spells, they wouldn't necessarily maintain a large edge. The cost of rituals over time went exponentially towards zero as you gained levels above the cost of the ritual. If you're finding 10000 gold per adventure and a ritual costs 100 gold, it isn't a big deal to cast it a few times. Not a problem unique to 4e either — Pearls of Power are eventually super cheap to craft in 3.5e, Healing Potions are 50 gp when high level PCs can typically expect to find 280000 gold per adventure. 5600 healing potions goes a really long way to stopping hps as a resource drain at high level. The cost of casting rituals on scrolls went exponentially towards zero. When you're finding 50000 gold per adventure and a scroll costs 500 gold, not a big deal to cast it a few times. [/QUOTE]
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