Okay.. My first idea for 4th Edition Feat

[MindForge]

Ok. There is one thing that has me kind of erked about rituals. They take for frikken ever. I think I have decided that my first feat creation will be a three part feat (heroic tier, paragon tier, epic tier).

I think the first one will cut the time down by half. I think I should force a choice of skill though; arcana, religion, heal, and nature. Not sure.

Heroic Tier: cut time in half (10 minutes = 5 minutes)
Paragon Tier: cut time in quarter (10 minutes = 2.5 minutes)
Epic Tier: cut time by ten (10 minutes = 1 minute)

I am not sure yet though, I will have to see them in play to determine whether they are worth it or not. I think I might do a whole chain of feats for rituals.

[TiFFman]

Personally I would say they have to choose a skill area. (arcana, religion, etc.)

As nice as it would be to have all rituals shortened, I feel this could create more diverse or specific skills/class.

[MindForge]

Yeah. That was my idea too. I mean a knock spell taking 10 minutes. I think that a fighter that casts rituals should take ten minutes but not a fireball flinging wizard. Maybe I might create a new power at a few levels that allows a specific ritual to be cast daily like a daily power.

[TiFFman]

I like the sound of the feat for a single ritual to become a daily spell. Perhaps increase it's spell level? (Similar to the metamagic feats)

[MindForge]

Spell Level?

What's that?

Spell Levels are gone. Now you gain spells that are locked and get powerful at their different tiers (heroic, paragon, epic)

[TiFFman]

ah ok. got a little confused for a second :).

haven't had a chance to see the tiers but would it be feasible to have it raised a tier for it to become a daily cast?

[MindForge]

nope. You could always add different bonuses though.

[RafeIxeian]

A tier is just a special stage of levelling where you specialize a bit, adding a few things to how the character will develop from that point forward.

[vithgard777]

The rituals' casting times have already been cut in half with the introduction of the new scroll rules. When creating a scroll it is considered to have been half cast, and so the ritual casting time for a scroll is half the time it normally would take.