Ritual Spells
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:18 pm
The book makes reference to there existing ritual spells and that the spells included here are adventuring spells.
So why are Find Familiar and Patron Bond not considered among these ritualized spells? They take a week to cast and cannot be cast again for a month. They are totally unlike all the other spells as successful castings result in a Judge fiat result. Why would I want these spells cluttering my adventuring spell book!? I understand they are important for the game but shouldn't they use this Ritualized Magic system rather than the Adventuring Magic system?RITUALIZED MAGIC
The spells listed here are primarily oriented around an adventuring wizard. As such, they do not include the great rites and rituals of the era: those magical invocations which take days or weeks to complete and which can tap into recondite energies beyond the scope of this work. Know that there are more powerful rituals, of a longer duration and more difficult casting time, than described here. These rituals typically mandate spellburn and sacrifices of various kinds and can summon forth unearthly creatures from beyond space and time, whose powers are not limited by the physics we know. Such works of magic are reserved for future volumes.