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== Rituals ==

''Don't you see? The universe is logical. Rational. There's an explanation for everything if only you understand how it works. And that's just what I do. My book? These are the formulas needed to make the world move around us. It's simply like a see-saw, you see? Push one side down, the other goes up. Recite this incantation or burn that incense, and one gains the ability to fly.''

'''A gnome checks his thick book, applying a smidgen of lye, pure quartz and a small pinch of faerie dust into the small cauldron that bubbles with no source of heat. Just a few more ingredients and his companions would all be able to fly.'''

''Raven. Wolf. Bear. Stag. All of these are the beasts that have seen my ancestors through harsh times, and now they see me. Through them I can face any challenge, and with their help I can break any foe, overcome any obstacle. I make offerings to them, and they listen to my pleas, and help me just as they did for all those of my tribe.''

'''The diary is filled with inane scribbles and incomprehensible marks that cause the mind to blur and a feeling of vertigo. The pale young woman holding the book twitches as she recalls another nightmare. Her material components each represent a part of her dream as she prepares to introduce the madness that dwells within her mind into the real world, drawing it from her psyche and imprinting reality with her mark.'''

''Your body, your beliefs hold power. These tattoos that line my body are webs that stretch farther than simply my being. They connect me to a greater source of power than any could understand. Through them I am able to understand the world better, feel it better, and use that power to influence objects around me. Come, and let me scribe upon your skin as well so that you too may understand what happens here.''

'''A small set of cups holds representations of each of the elements; air as incense, smoke curling to the sky. Earth a precious gem, dug from deep below the soil. Water a precious elixir, distilled from the purest of springs. And last fire, a glowing ember. Within the square a woman calls out to the elemental spirits, beseeching them for aid in a time of need. She only needs to finish her incantation before they respond.'''

''The stars--do they talk to you too?? They whisper things--strange things! That one day, a glorious and terrible force will come from below the sea, that it will sweep away the world, that it will destroy everything! EVERYTHING!! But its time is not here yet--the stars are not yet right for that to come to pass. But all of these people--the stars tell me that it's time they die! As long as I listen to the whispers, I will have the power to end them all!!''

'''Holy symbols and relics line a soft circle made in sand as a quiet woman in a simple white gown prays within it. Her words flow out as she rocks back and forth on her knees, hands clasped together as she feels power thrum within her. She is a container, a vessel for her god's will. Soon she will fill up to the top, and then will her god's will be made manifest.'''

''Oh great demon of the Abyss! Oh lord of temptation and greed! Hear my call and answer! For it is I, your faithful servant you calls upon you this day! Grant me your power that I might make my enemies rue your existence! Make me into your sword, and strike down those who would turn their ears from your insidious whispers! Bring fire, fire and brimstone upon them, and let the earth shake and the skies rumble with your fury!''

=== What are Rituals? ===

Rituals are a way of bringing player agency and world-shaping abilities to games that lack spellcasters such as the wizard or cleric. They give such powers to all characters--after all, why should only the spellcasters have the ability to change the world around them? Rather than giving only traditional spellcasters such abilities, this variant grants them to all characters.

=== Mechanics ===

Rituals require an amount of time to enact, and duplicate some sort of effect. While many rituals appear in the world, most can only be cast by a character of a certain character level (CL from now on), and that character must have at least 9 [[Intelligence]] and [[Charisma]]. The following table defines at what CL characters can cast a ritual of what level:

{| class="{{d20}}"
|+ Rituals by Character Level
! Character level || Ritual Level
|- class="{{Odd-Even}}"
| 1 || 1
|- class="{{Odd-Even}}"
| 3 || 2
|- class="{{Odd-Even}}"
| 5 || 3
|- class="{{Odd-Even}}"
| 7 || 4
|- class="{{Odd-Even}}"
| 9 || 5
|- class="{{Odd-Even}}"
| 11 || 6
|- class="{{Odd-Even}}"
| 13 || 7
|- class="{{Odd-Even}}"
| 15 || 8
|- class="{{Odd-Even}}"
| 17 || 9
|}

==== Casting a Ritual ====

There are a number of components to casting a ritual. Depending on the ritual's nature, it has either a short casting time (one minute), medium casting time (ten minutes), or long casting time (one hour).

Rituals require special materials, incense, or other components to cast; this cost is equal to the effective character level x 50. A caster may reduce their effective caster level for the purpose of ritual up to the minimum required to cast said ritual in order to minimize the cost. If the ritual duplicates a spell with expensive material components or an experience cost, the cost of the material compontents must be added into the original ritual cost, as well as 50 gold per experience point that would be spent were the spell cast normally. These components are consumed regardless of whether the ritual succeeds or fails.

Characters require a [[Charisma]] check to successfully cast a ritual, made at the end of the ritual's casting time. The DC for this check is equal to 10 + ritual level. If the ritual duplicates a spell, the caster level is equal to the caster's character level. If the ritual duplicates a power, the manifester level is equal to the caster's character level, and the effect is automatically augmented to the character's level as well. Any DC is equal to 10 + 1/2 character level + [[Charisma]] modifier. If you cast a ritual from a ritual book that is not yours you take a -5 penalty to the [[Charisma]] check.

Rituals may be interrupted at any time, as per the [[SRD:Concentration|Concentration]] skill (replace all instances of "spell" with ritual. All rituals are considered to have a somatic and verbal component).

==== Collecting Rituals ====

Rituals can be found or researched; either way, recording them requires a ritual book (identical to a [[SRD:Wizard's_Spellbook|spellbook]]). Alternative materials can be used to record a ritual as per Alternative Spellbooks (Complete Arcane 186). Each ritual requires 100 gp per ritual level in special inks, adhesive dust, or similar material to record, and takes a single page of the ritual book. Each ritual requires at least one hour to copy into a ritual book, and due to the amount of attention needed to understand a ritual, only one person may copy a single ritual at a time.

While many rituals are found, they can also be researched. Characters can research rituals that are at least one level lower than the highest-level ritual they can cast, and researching a ritual requires 1,000 gp per ritual level to research as well as three days per level of the ritual.

Characters cannot share ritual books (though they can use rituals from any book they find or that another character owns at the penalty mentioned above), but grow familiar with certain rituals they cast time and again. A character may have a number of rituals that have been copied to his ritual book that are on his preferred list, and these are his preferred rituals. A character can prefer a number of rituals whose total levels do not exceed his character level. Thus, a level 10 character could have two third-level rituals and a fourth-level ritual on his preferred list. Upon scribing a new ritual to one's ritual book, a character may add it to his preferred list as well though he must remove a number of rituals from his preferred list to accommodate the new ritual's level.

Preferred rituals have a number of benefits; first of all, one does not need a ritual book on hand to cast them, and one receives a bonus on the [[Charisma]] check to cast them equal to one-half one's character level or +5, whichever is higher.

=== Sample Rituals ===

Here are a number of sample rituals to get you started. Remember that specific rituals may be missing from a campaign altogether at the DM's discretion. Use the following rituals as guidelines for your own.

==== First Level Rituals ====

===== Animate Rope =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animate Rope|Animate Rope]].

===== Astral Traveler =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Astral_Traveler|Astral Traveler]].

===== Augury =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Augury|Augury]].

===== Body Equilibrium =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Body Equilibrium|Body Equilibrium]]. Range is changed to Touch.
*Special: If cast as a second-level ritual, you may reduce the casting time to Short.

===== Call Weaponry =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Call Weaponry|Call Weaponry]].

===== Destroy Warp Anchor =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Destroy a [[Warp_(3.5e_Spell)|Anchor Point]] you can touch.

===== Detect Aspect =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Evil|Detect Evil]] except that you may attempt to detect any specific creature type (and subtype where applicable) or alignment.

===== Detect Magic =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Magic|Detect Magic]].

===== Detect Poison =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Poison|Detect Poison]].

===== Detect Secret Doors =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Secret Doors|Detect Secret Doors]].

===== Detect Snares and Pits =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect_Snares_and_Pits|Detect Snares and Pits]].

===== Feather Fall =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Feather Fall|Feather Fall]], except it applies to the next time one falls at least 10' in the next 10 minutes.
*Special: If one hangs this ritual, it may be unhung as an immediate action.

===== Float =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Float|Float]].

===== Ghost Sound =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Ghost Sound|Ghost Sound]].

===== Hold Portal =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Hold Portal|Hold Portal]].

===== Identify =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Identify|Identify]].

===== Know Direction =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Know Direction|Know Direction]].

===== Light =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Light|Light]].

===== Mending =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Mending|Mending]].

===== My Light =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:My Light|My Light]]. Range is changed to Touch.

===== Purify Food and Drink =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Purify Food and Drink|Purify Food and Drink]].

===== Read Magic =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Read Magic|Read Magic]].

===== Speak with Animals =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Speak with Animals|Speak with Animals]].

===== Speak with Plants =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Speak with Plants|Speak with Plants]].

===== Synthestate =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Synesthete|Synthestate]].

===== Status =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Status|Status]].

===== Undetectable Alignment =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Undetectable Alignment|Undetectable Alignment]].

===== Unseen Servant =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Unseen Servant|Unseen Servant]].

===== Ventriloquism =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Ghost Sound|Ghost Sound]].

===== Whispering Wind =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Whispering Wind|Whispering Wind]].

==== Second Level Rituals ====

===== Alarm =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Alarm|Alarm]].

===== Align Weapon =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Align Weapon|Align Weapon]].

===== Animal Messenger =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animal Messenger|Animal Messenger]].

===== Animal Trance =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animal Trance|Animal Trance]].
*Special: One cannot hang this ritual.

===== Break Enchantment =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Break Enchantment|Break Enchantment]].

===== Commune With Nature =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Commune With Nature|Commune With Nature]].

===== Comprehend Languages =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Comprehend Languages|Comprehend Languages]].

===== Create Food and Water =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Create_Food_and_Water|Create Food and Water]].

===== Detect Thoughts =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Thoughts|Detect Thoughts]].

===== Disguise Self =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Disguise Self|Disguise Self]].

===== Dispel Magic =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Greater Dispel Magic|Greater Dispel Magic]].

===== Endure Elements =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Endure Elements|Endure Elements]].

===== Establish Warp Anchor =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Creates a [[Warp_(3.5e_Spell)|Anchor Point]] at your location.

===== Find Traps =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Find_Traps|Find Traps]], except that the bonus to Search is +5 and doesn't change with CL.
*Special: The ritual may be cast with a medium casting time to increase the bonus to +10, or a long casting time to increase the bonus to +20.

===== Ghost Touch Weapon =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: A single weapon (or up to 50 pieces of ammunition) gain the [[SRD:Ghost_Touch_(Weapon_Enhancement)|Ghost Touch]] property for one minute per CL.

===== Hypnotism =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Hypnotism|Hypnotism]].
*Special: One cannot hang this ritual.

===== Knock =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Knock|Knock]], except that instead of automatically unlocking the portal it instead reduces the open lock DC by 10.
*Special: This ritual may be cast with a long casting time to instead reduce the DC by 20. One cannot hang this ritual when used this way.

===== Misdirection =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Misdirection|Misdirection]].

===== Scent =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Psionic Scent|Psionic Scent]]. Range is changed to Touch.

===== See Invisibility =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:See Invisibility|See Invisibility]]. Range is changed to Touch.

===== Sensitivity to Psychic Impressions =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Sensitivity to Psychic Impressions|Sensitivity to Psychic Impressions]].

===== Telepathic Bond, Lesser =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Lesser Telepathic Bond|Lesser Telepathic Bond]]. Range is changed to Touch.

==== Third Level Rituals ====

===== Arcane Sight =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Arcane Sight|Arcane Sight]].

===== Clairaudience/Clairvoyance =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Clairaudience/Clairvoyance|Clairaudience/Clairvoyance]].

===== Contact Other Plane =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Contact Other Plane|Contact Other Plane]].

===== Daylight =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Daylight|Daylight]].

===== Detect Scrying =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Scrying|Detect Scrying]].

===== Divination =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Divination|Divination]].

===== Find the Path =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Find the Path|Find the Path]].

===== Hypnotic Pattern =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Hypnotic Pattern|Hypnotic Pattern]].
*Special: One cannot hang this ritual.

===== Invisibility =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Invisibility_(Spell)|Invisibility]].

===== Levitate =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Levitate|Levitate]]. Range is changed to Touch.

===== Object Reading =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Object Reading|Object Reading]].

===== Silence =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Silence|Silence]]. Range is changed to Touch.

===== Speak with Dead =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Speak with Dead|Speak with Dead]].

===== Stone Tell =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Stone Tell|Stone Tell]].

===== Suggestion =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Suggestion|Suggestion]]. While the suggestion must be decided upon at the start of the ritual, you have one minute upon finishing to cast the ritual to lay the suggestion on someone as a standard action.

===== Tongues =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Tongues|Tongues]].

===== Vision =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Vision|Vision]].

==== Fourth Level Rituals ====

===== Air Walk =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Air Walk|Air Walk]].

===== Analyze Dweomer =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Analyze Dweomer|Analyze Dweomer]].

===== Arcane Eye =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates[[SRD:Arcane_Eye|Arcane Eye]].

===== Commune =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Commune|Commune]].

===== Fly =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Fly (Spell)|Fly]].

===== Locate Object =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Locate Object|Locate Object]].

===== Pursue Warp =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[Pursue Warp (3.5e Spell)|Pursue Warp]].

===== Quintessence =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Quintessence|Quintessence]].

===== Scrying =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Scrying|Scrying]].

===== Telepathic Bond =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Telepathic Bond|Telepathic Bond]]. Range is changed to Touch.

===== Warp =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[Warp_(3.5e_Spell)|Warp]].

==== Fifth Level Rituals ====

===== Animate Dead =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animate Dead|Animate Dead]]. One cannot hang this ritual.
*Special: You cannot control more than 2 HD of undead per CL with this ritual.

===== Animate Objects =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animate Objects|Animate Objects]]. One cannot hang this ritual.

===== Animate Plants =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animate Plants|Animate Plants]]. One cannot hang this ritual.

===== Astral Caravan =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Astral_Caravan|Astral Caravan]].

===== Awaken =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Awaken|Awaken]]. One cannot hang this ritual.

===== Lesser Dimensional Lock =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Dimensional Lock|Dimensional Lock]]. The duration is changed to one round per level, and the area is changed to a 100' emanation.

==== Sixth Level Rituals ====

===== Arcane Sight, Greater =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Greater Arcane Sight|Greater Arcane Sight]].

===== Guards and Wards =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Guards and Wards|Guards and Wards]].

===== Overland Flight =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Overland Flight|Overland Flight]]. Range is changed to Touch.

===== Passage of the Warp =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[Passage_of_the_Warp_(3.5e_Spell)|Passage of the Warp]].

===== Plane Shift =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Plane Shift|Plane Shift]].

===== Prying Eyes =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Prying Eyes|Prying Eyes]].

==== Seventh Level Rituals ====

===== Dream Travel =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Dream Travel|Dream Travel]].

===== Scrying, Greater =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Greater_Scrying|Greater Scrying]].

===== Teleport =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Teleport|Teleport]].

===== True Seeing =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:True Seeing|True Seeing]].

===== Volcanic Eruption =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[Volcano_(3.5e_Epic_Spell)|Volcano]]. The volcano does not continue erupting or growing after the initial effect.
*Special: One cannot hang this ritual.

==== Eighth Level Rituals ====

===== Brain Spider =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Brain Spider|Brain Spider]].

===== Dimensional Lock =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Dimensional Lock|Dimensional Lock]].

===== Discern Location =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Discern Location|Discern Location]].

===== Gate =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates the planar travel version of [[SRD:Gate|Gate]] though with no maximum concentration time.

===== Imprisonment =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Imprisonment|Imprisonment]], but the target must either be willing or helpless.

===== Mind Blank =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Mind Blank|Mind Blank]]. Range is changed to Touch.

===== Prying Eyes, Greater =====
*Casting Time: Medium
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Greater Prying Eyes|Greater Prying Eyes]].

==== Ninth Level Rituals ====

===== Genesis =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Genesis|Genesis]] except that if this ritual is cast again the original demiplane is destroyed and creatures within it are expelled where the original Genesis spell was originally cast.

===== Hypercognition =====
*Casting Time: Short
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Hypercognition|Hypercognition]].

===== Metafaculty =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Metafaculty|Metafaculty]].

===== Teleportation Circle =====
*Casting Time: Long
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Teleportation Circle|Teleportation Circle]].

=== Supplemental Rules ===

{{3.5e Feat
|name=Chained Ritual
|types=
|summary=You can share your rituals with others.
|prereqs=
|benefit=Once per day when you finish casting a ritual with a range of touch, you may also touch up to 5 other creatures and have them be affected by the ritual. If a creature attempts to resist the ritual it automatically fails on that creature regardless of any save that would or would not be present.
|special=This feat may be taken multiple times. Each time, you may activate a ritual with a lowered casting time an additional time per day.
}}
{{3.5e Feat
|name=Dedicated Researcher
|types=
|summary=You are a wealth of knowledge, and can research rituals far faster than your peers.
|prereqs=
|prereq_feat1=
|benefit=You require only 2 days and 750 gp per ritual level to research a ritual.
|special=This feat may be taken a second time. Doing so makes it so that you require only 1 day and 500 gp per ritual level to research a ritual.
}}
{{3.5e Feat
|name=Hang Ritual
|types=
|summary=You can "hang" a ritual for later use.
|prereqs=
|prereq_feat1=
|benefit=Upon successfully casting a ritual you may stop right before the last word. The ritual then "hangs", ready to be used at a later time. A ritual may be activated as a standard action if its activation time is short, a full-round action if its activation time is medium, and a one-round action if its activation is long. Unhanging a ritual provokes an attack of opportunity and may be interrupted as normal.
|special=This feat may be taken any number of times. Each time this feat is taken, you may hang another ritual. For example, someone who took this feat three times would be able to hang up to three rituals at a time.
}}
{{3.5e Feat
|name=Persistent Ritual
|types=
|summary=Your rituals last far longer than others'.
|prereqs=
|benefit=When you finish casting a ritual with a range of personal or touch at least 1 level lower than the highest-level ritual you can cast, you may designate it as a persistent ritual as long as it has a duration that is not Instantaneous or Permament. The duration of this ritual becomes 24 hours.
|special=You may only have one ritual that is under the effect of this feat active at any one time. This feat may be taken multiple times. For every time it is taken, you may have another feat affected by this feat active at one time.
}}
{{3.5e Feat
|name=Professional Ritualist
|types=
|summary=You succeed at casting rituals far more often than your peers.
|prereqs=
|benefit=You gain a +5 bonus to the [[Charisma]] check to successfully cast a ritual.
|special=This feat may be taken multiple times. Each time the bonus increases by another two. Thus, someone who took this feat three times would gain a +9 bonus to their check.
}}
{{3.5e Feat
|name=Quicken Ritual
|types=
|summary=You can cast rituals on the fly a small number of times per day.
|prereqs=
|benefit=Once per day you may cast a ritual with a lowered casting time. Rituals with a short casting time require one round to cast, rituals with a medium casting time require two rounds to cast, and rituals with a long casting time require three rounds to cast.
|special=This feat may not be used with rituals that one could not hang. This feat may be taken multiple times. Each time, you may activate a ritual with a lowered casting time an additional time per day.
}}
{{3.5e Feat
|name=Ritual Savant
|types=
|summary=Your mind is a repository of rituals that few can challenge in its depth.
|prereqs=
|benefit=You may add your level to the total number of ritual levels in your preferred ritual list.
|special=This feat may be taken multiple times. Each time, you may add your character level once more to the total number of ritual levels in your preferred ritual list. Thus, a level five character who's taken this feat twice could have up to 15 ritual levels on their preferred ritual list.
}}


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[[Category:3.5e]]
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[[Category:Uncategorized Variant Rule]]
Author	Ghostwheel +
Identifier	3.5e Variant Rule +
Prerequisite	None +
Rated By	MisterSinister + and Foxwarrior +
Rating	Rating Pending +
Summary	You can share your rituals with others. +, You are a wealth of knowledge, and can research rituals far faster than your peers. +, You can "hang" a ritual for later use. +, Your rituals last far longer than others'. +, You succeed at casting rituals far more often than your peers. +, You can cast rituals on the fly a small number of times per day. + and Your mind is a repository of rituals that few can challenge in its depth. +
Title	Rituals +
Type	General +