Rituals, Especially Dark Sun Rituals

[TikkchikFenTikktikk]

Is there a good source for new rituals? A third-party perhaps?

How about good rituals specific to Dark Sun? The campaign guide only includes two (LAME!) but it seems that such a world should have lots of cool, unique rituals.

Also, anyone have any good experiences or stories to share about using rituals in 4E?

 

[Scribble]

Goodman Games has a big'ole book of rituals for sale.

I've been meaning to pick it up at some point when I have extra cash in my gaming budget.

 

[Riastlin]

The compendium has rituals that you can sort through if you are a DDI subscriber. I believe you can even sort through them by source (i.e. PHB, Dragon, Arcane Power, etc.).

As for stories, I think the most humorous use of a ritual I've seen so far is using Tenser's Floating Disk at level 1 in order to get the paladin across the rope bridge. Of course half way across the party was attacked by Fell Taints and the paladin refused to leave the disk.

Aside from that, I haven't seen too much in the way of "creative" uses, but my party has gotten pretty good at using Eye of Alarm when resting, and used Magic Circle of Protection (or whatever its called) to protect the villagers that had been captured by gnolls while the party rested.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

We actually had a fairly interesting use for a ritual in our session just last night.

The setup: The PCs had to travel to the Endless Maze to rescue the princess (who's eight). The only way they could find to get out was to climb up a huge chain through a planar portal that was swarmed with vrocks, and they didn't want to have to deal with that AND watching the princess.

So, our paladin came up with an idea. He had Leomund's Secret Chest and enough residuum to summon the chest, so he did so. The rogue set up a mechanism in the chest so that it could be opened from the inside, so they put the princess in the chest and sent it away.

 

[Insight]

How about good rituals specific to Dark Sun? The campaign guide only includes two (LAME!) but it seems that such a world should have lots of cool, unique rituals.

Actually, you're probably going to have less rituals in Dark Sun. The published rituals with Heal or Religion as the main skill probably won't exist, or at least should be hard to find. Especially Religion as the gods are unresponsive/dead/sleeping/whatever.

I agree with the premise that there should be more Dark Sun specific rituals. Maybe a Dragon article?