You can now inscribe magical rituals in your Book of Shadows. Choose two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any class’s spell list (the two needn’t be from the same list). The spells appear in the book and don’t count against the number of spells you know. With your Book of Shadows in hand, you can cast the chosen spells as rituals. You can’t cast the spells except as rituals, unless you’ve learned them by some other means. You can also cast a warlock spell you know as a ritual if it has the ritual tag.
On your adventures, you can add other ritual spells to your Book of Shadows. When you find such a spell, you can add it to the book if the spell’s level is equal to or less than half your warlock level (rounded up) and if you can spare the time to transcribe the spell. For each level of the spell, the transcription process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp for the rare inks needed to inscribe it.
How else would you ever be able to add more during the course of your adventures?
I understand where that comes from a rules perspective but from a UI and software design perspective it seems like a bug.
Usually the character builder limits choices to the choices when you gain the feature and lets you expand upon them in the character sheet. I believe to be consistent with the rest of the character builder the choices should be limited to the "two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any class’s spell list (the two needn’t be from the same list)." and then have a separate section or at least separate verbiage for adding additional rituals. It also doesn't put the selection for the new ritual at the bottom of the list but consistently in the third spot when to be consistent with the rest of the UI it seems like it should be at the top or at the bottom instead of the middle.
Those are only my thoughts and regardless the solution the functionality seems out of place in regards to the rest of the UI and to my knowledge has confused some players when making characters. But that's up for the development team to decide :P
It works the same for that Invocation as it does for the other two things that allow for a potentially limitless number of Spells: the Ritual Caster feat, and the Wizard Class’s Spellbook. All three of those features are consistent with each other. Go see for yourself if you don’t believe me. 🤷♂️
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Every time the last ritual is selected, it adds it and continues to let them be selected within a limit.
May be connected to https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/bugs-support/64605-bug-report-character-creator-book-of-ancient
That’s not a bug, it has to be able to do that.
How else would you ever be able to add more during the course of your adventures?
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I assumed with the manage spells option similar to other classes, including the wizard.
I understand where that comes from a rules perspective but from a UI and software design perspective it seems like a bug.
Usually the character builder limits choices to the choices when you gain the feature and lets you expand upon them in the character sheet.
I believe to be consistent with the rest of the character builder the choices should be limited to the "two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any class’s spell list (the two needn’t be from the same list)." and then have a separate section or at least separate verbiage for adding additional rituals.
It also doesn't put the selection for the new ritual at the bottom of the list but consistently in the third spot when to be consistent with the rest of the UI it seems like it should be at the top or at the bottom instead of the middle.
Those are only my thoughts and regardless the solution the functionality seems out of place in regards to the rest of the UI and to my knowledge has confused some players when making characters. But that's up for the development team to decide :P
It works the same for that Invocation as it does for the other two things that allow for a potentially limitless number of Spells: the Ritual Caster feat, and the Wizard Class’s Spellbook. All three of those features are consistent with each other. Go see for yourself if you don’t believe me. 🤷♂️
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