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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).
 
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).
  
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Rituals require special materials, incense, or other components to cast; this cost is equal to the ritual's level squared x 50. These components are consumed regardless of whether the ritual succeeds or fails.
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Rituals require special materials, incense, or other components to cast; this cost is equal to the ritual's level squared x 50. 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.
  
 
Finally, 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 effect caster level is equal to the caster's character level, and any DC is equal to 10 + 1/2 character level + [[Charisma]] modifier.
 
Finally, 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 effect caster level is equal to the caster's character level, and any DC is equal to 10 + 1/2 character level + [[Charisma]] modifier.
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==== First Level Rituals ====
 
==== First Level Rituals ====
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===== Animate Rope =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animate Rope|Animate Rope]]
  
 
===== Astral Traveler =====
 
===== Astral Traveler =====
 
*Casting Time: Long
 
*Casting Time: Long
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Astral_Traveler|Astral Traveler]]
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Astral_Traveler|Astral Traveler]]
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===== Detect Magic =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Magic|Detect Magic]].
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===== Detect Poison =====
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*Casting Time: Medium
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Poison|Detect Poison]].
  
 
===== Detect Secret Doors =====
 
===== Detect Secret Doors =====
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*Casting Time: Long
 
*Casting Time: Long
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Purify Food and Drink|Purify Food and Drink]]
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Purify Food and Drink|Purify Food and Drink]]
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===== Unseen Servant =====
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*Casting Time: Long
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Unseen Servant|Unseen Servant]].
  
 
===== Ventriloquism =====
 
===== Ventriloquism =====
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*Casting Time: Long
 
*Casting Time: Long
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Alarm|Alarm]].
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Alarm|Alarm]].
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===== Align Weapon =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Align Weapon|Align Weapon]].
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===== Animal Messenger =====
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*Casting Time: Medium
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animal Messenger|Animal Messenger]].
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===== Animal Trance =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animal Trance|Animal Trance]].
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*Special: One cannot hang this ritual.
  
 
===== Create Food and Water =====
 
===== Create Food and Water =====
 
*Casting Time: Long
 
*Casting Time: Long
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Create_Food_and_Water|Create Food and Water]].
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Create_Food_and_Water|Create Food and Water]].
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===== Detect Magic =====
 
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*Casting Time: Short
 
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Magic|Detect Magic]].
 
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===== Detect Poison =====
 
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*Casting Time: Medium
 
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Detect Poison|Detect Poison]].
 
  
 
===== Detect Thoughts =====
 
===== Detect Thoughts =====
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*Casting Time: Medium
 
*Casting Time: Medium
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Endure Elements|Endure Elements]].
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Endure Elements|Endure Elements]].
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===== Ghost Touch Weapon =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*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.
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===== Hypnotism =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Hypnotism|Hypnotism]].
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*Special: One cannot hang this ritual.
  
 
===== Knock =====
 
===== Knock =====
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*Casting Time: Short
 
*Casting Time: Short
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:See Invisibility|See Invisibility]]. Range is changed to Touch.
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:See Invisibility|See Invisibility]]. Range is changed to Touch.
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===== Unseen Servant =====
 
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*Casting Time: Long
 
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Unseen Servant|Unseen Servant]].
 
  
 
==== Third Level Rituals ====
 
==== Third Level Rituals ====
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*Casting Time: Short
 
*Casting Time: Short
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Daylight|Daylight]].
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Daylight|Daylight]].
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===== Hypnotic Pattern =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Hypnotic Pattern|Hypnotic Pattern]].
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*Special: One cannot hang this ritual.
  
 
===== Invisibility =====
 
===== Invisibility =====
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*Casting Time: Short
 
*Casting Time: Short
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Levitate|Levitate]]. Range is changed to Touch.
 
*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Levitate|Levitate]]. Range is changed to Touch.
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===== Silence =====
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*Casting Time: Medium
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Silence|Silence]]. Range is changed to Touch.
  
 
==== Fourth Level Rituals ====
 
==== Fourth Level Rituals ====
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===== Air Walk =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Air Walk|Air Walk]].
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===== Analyze Dweomer =====
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*Casting Time: Medium
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Analyze Dweomer|Analyze Dweomer]].
  
 
===== Fly =====
 
===== Fly =====
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==== Fifth Level Rituals ====
 
==== Fifth Level Rituals ====
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===== Animate Dead =====
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*Casting Time: Long
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animate Dead|Animate Dead]]. One cannot hang this ritual.
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===== Animate Objects =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animate Objects|Animate Objects]]. One cannot hang this ritual.
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===== Animate Plants =====
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*Casting Time: Short
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Animate Plants|Animate Plants]]. One cannot hang this ritual.
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===== Awaken =====
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*Casting Time: Long
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*Effect: Duplicates [[SRD:Awaken|Awaken]]. One cannot hang this ritual.
  
 
==== Sixth Level Rituals ====
 
==== Sixth Level Rituals ====

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Rituals

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). The following table defines at what CL characters can cast a ritual of what level:

Rituals by Character Level
Character level Ritual Level
1 1
3 2
5 3
7 4
9 5
11 6
13 7
15 8
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 ritual's level squared x 50. 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.

Finally, 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 effect caster level is equal to the caster's character level, and any DC is equal to 10 + 1/2 character level + Charisma modifier.

Rituals may be interrupted at any time, as per the 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 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.

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.

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
Astral Traveler
Detect Magic
Detect Poison
Detect Secret Doors
Feather Fall
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates 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.
Ghost Sound
Hold Portal
Light
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Light
Mending
  • Casting Time: Medium
  • Effect: Duplicates Mending
Purify Food and Drink
Unseen Servant
Ventriloquism
Whispering Wind

Second Level Rituals

Alarm
  • Casting Time: Long
  • Effect: Duplicates Alarm.
Align Weapon
Animal Messenger
Animal Trance
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Animal Trance.
  • Special: One cannot hang this ritual.
Create Food and Water
Detect Thoughts
Disguise Self
Dispel Magic
Endure Elements
Ghost Touch Weapon
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: A single weapon (or up to 50 pieces of ammunition) gain the Ghost Touch property for one minute per CL.
Hypnotism
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Hypnotism.
  • Special: One cannot hang this ritual.
Knock
  • Casting Time: Medium
  • Effect: Duplicates 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
See Invisibility
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates See Invisibility. Range is changed to Touch.

Third Level Rituals

Daylight
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Daylight.
Hypnotic Pattern
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Hypnotic Pattern.
  • Special: One cannot hang this ritual.
Invisibility
Levitate
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Levitate. Range is changed to Touch.
Silence
  • Casting Time: Medium
  • Effect: Duplicates Silence. Range is changed to Touch.

Fourth Level Rituals

Air Walk
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Air Walk.
Analyze Dweomer
Fly
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Fly.

Fifth Level Rituals

Animate Dead
  • Casting Time: Long
  • Effect: Duplicates Animate Dead. One cannot hang this ritual.
Animate Objects
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Animate Objects. One cannot hang this ritual.
Animate Plants
  • Casting Time: Short
  • Effect: Duplicates Animate Plants. One cannot hang this ritual.
Awaken
  • Casting Time: Long
  • Effect: Duplicates Awaken. One cannot hang this ritual.

Sixth Level Rituals

Seventh Level Rituals

Volcanic Eruption
  • Casting Time: Long
  • Effect: Duplicates Volcano. The volcano does not continue erupting or growing after the initial effect.
  • Special: One cannot hang this ritual.

Eighth Level Rituals

Ninth Level Rituals

Genesis
  • Casting Time: Long
  • Effect: Duplicates 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.

Supplemental Rules

Hang Ritual [General] 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: Some rituals may take a different amount of time to cast on the fly. This feat may be taken any number of times. Each time this ritual 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.


Professional Ritualist [General] 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.


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