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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hadrian the Builder" data-source="post: 5658021" data-attributes="member: 73776">Why? Good question. I propose that just as email has replaced a lot of written correspondence, those with access to rituals will often have another option than the mundane.  You might ride a horse because you need to travel through the territory (for example, you're on patrol). You might ride a dragon because they offer a wide variety of advantages besides the ability to get from one point to another. There should still be a cost to acquire the ritual (or additional rituals, if you grant one new one per level). Continuing with the knock example: the ritual caster may not know the ritual, may not have it prepared, or there may be more than one locked door. Just as always, the usefulness of utility spellcasting is situational, but rogues can be counted on to have some lock-picking ability any time you need it.I agree with this goal. And I think that the idea of granting nature rituals to nature classes, religion to divine, and arcane to arcane would limit the toe-stepping quite a bit.I'm not prepared to fully flesh out a new system, but to prevent casters from outdoing everyone else, you might add benefits for those with training in a skill (such as thievery) and a penalty for those without it. In the case of knock, it means that, ceteris paribus, a thief using the knock ritual is more effective than the wizard trying to pinch hit.</blockquote>