Welcome everybody to another episode of Critical Hit, The Major Spoilers Dungeons and Dragons podcast.

You know, we're taking a break from our action to once again go over some of the component things.

And Rodrigo had mentioned at the end of the last session that we had picked up a rituals book

and we also found 200 gold worth of ritual components.

And really myself and D&D Brian have the ability to cast rituals.

But to be honest, I'm not really sure what rituals are.

I mean, I've got some, I've got animal messenger, tensors floating disc, and comprehend language.

We picked that up from my first character creation.

What are rituals and why are they of any use or are they of use?

Rituals are spells, basically spells that are more utilitarian and take longer to cast.

Your actual powers, the spells that you as a wizard can cast are almost entirely geared towards combat

and some of them towards like skill checks.

Okay.

These things will be more sort of plot based things.

You know, animal messenger would allow you to get in contact with a member of the party who is far away.

That's just floating disc would allow you to carry things that you wouldn't otherwise be able to carry.

But at this point though, we really haven't or I haven't experienced anything where I have to carry anything.

You know, a much weight or I guess my big concern is I'd like to do some things

that some of these rituals you can't use in combat.

Like, why couldn't I use tensors floating disc and pick up the beastie and put him over the pit

and then remove tensors floating disc and he falls down into the pit?

Well, because first off, it takes like 10 minutes to cast.

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