Level Up (A5E) Artificers "casting by the book"

[Selganor]

Just wondering...

Wizards (the other class with a book full of magic) are the only class who can cast every spell they know as a ritual from their spellbook.

What would it take for an Artificer to be able to cast their Ritual spells from their Schematic book even if they didn't prepare them as spell inventions?

To be clear, the relevant spells would be:
1st: Alarm, Comprehend Languages, Detect Magic, Detect Poison and Disease, Identify
2nd: (Librarian's Helper if available)
3rd: Water Breathing, Water Walk

The RAW options I am seeing are:
- Ritual Caster Feat
RAW this doesn't include Artificer but if you choose the wizard spell list you could write more than double the spells (including all Artificer rituals except Detect Poison and Disease)

- Multiclass
Wizard 1 allows you to cast all spells your wizard can prepare to be cast ritually. If you want higher levels than 1 you'd have to raise your wizard level.
Warlock 3 (Pact of the Tome) can take the "Book of ancient secrets" which allows you to write any ritual spell (not just one class) but also dependent on your warlock level
Two ideas that I'm pondering with are:
- Field Discovery
Allowing the use the wizard's Ritual casting feature (maybe even "boosting" it at a higher level with the "Ritual Efficiency" upgrade) or maybe even the warlock's "Book of Ancient Secrets"

- Magic Item
I'm wondering what something like a "Ritualist's Bookmark/bookstand" would be? I'm thinking of an item (with attunement by an artificer).
Maybe an uncommon version that allows you to ritually cast artificer spells you got written in your schematic book (as spell scroll schematics) ritually even if you don't have them prepared.
For more flexibility maybe even a rare version for wizard spells (or a very rare one for cleric/druid spells?)

Since there seem to be quite a few artificer fans here... Comments, ideas, ...?

 

[kigmatzomat]

Deleted comments. Never mind. Missed the a5e tag on my phone.

 

[Tablite]

Wizard 1 allows you to cast all spells your wizard can prepare to be cast ritually.

No? They can only cast spellbook spells as rituals if they have the ritual tag, not just any and all spells

 

[Selganor]

That's a given. I didn't think that I'd have to mention that.

But any other class besides the wizard has to prepare the ritual spell (or have them in their limited arsenal if they don't prepare spells) to be able to cast them as rituals.
A wizard just has to have the ritual spell in the spellbook (and not even prepare that spell that day) but could still cast it as a ritual.

 

[Tablite]

To me, that's one of the things that makes Wizard casting special from other casters. But I see now reason why you can't rule that one can choose the Artificer spell list with the Ritual Caster fear, or make a "Ritual Tome" that functions as a separate spell book only for rituals. You could even have them find it as a schematic specifically for artificers.

I've done the latter myself in games, with higher rarities allowing for more spells to be held (2, 4, 6, 8, for common, uncommon, etc). I do caution about allowing a lot of spells to allowed as bonuses, as that limitation does help balance things in my experience

 

[Selganor]

Have you seen the number of spells an A5E Artificer can have prepared?
The maximum an Artificer could have prepared is 16 at level 18+ (and 10 of those come from their archetype which probably aren't ritual spells anyway - unless you got a really specific archetype)

A 5th level Wizard (just with his Ritual Casting class feature) already has access to up to 17 ritual spells, and can then also prepare 8-10 different spells that they could cast without a ritual.
The 3rd level feature "Ritual efficiency" even lets them cast rituals with +1 minute (instead of +10 minutes) casting time.

But your "Ritual Tomes" sound interesting, anything more about them?