So we are playing a higher level campaign, level 10 currently, one of the players characters died and since we are playing a planes walker-esque campaign she wants to play Liliana Vess as her new character and wants to do a warlock build stated similarly to the released character sheet with some changes, she asked though about making animate dead, danse macabre, and eventually create undead could be made rituals so she chould take the ritual caster feat for wizard. Im not sure how this will affect the balance of those spells and the game overall, what are your thoughts?
Those are very easily some of the most dangerous spells to turn into rituals. The fact that Animate Undead and Create Undead are limited in their spell use per-day is a huge part of their balancing feature. If your player can cast them all day long at zero resource cost, they can functionally turn every single body in a graveyard into their own personal army. Even if you remove the ability to reassert control over existing Undead, it still provides way, way too many Undead way, way too easily.
I do see how it can be hard to be a Warlock necromancer... their sheer lack of spell slots makes it hard to take full advantage of all the features that, say, a Wizard can enjoy. I think it's possible to pull something like this off, where the Warlock has some extra feature that allows them to create Undead servants outside of spellcasting (similar to how a Hexblade can turn a defeated enemy into a controllable spirit, or how Great Old One warlocks can enthrall a humanoid to be their servant), but those features generally only let you create one and have their own rules on how they work.
Give them a magic rod or something that provides one cast of those given spells per day. As Trans said, these spells are easily abused in ritual form. There is good reason that almost all rituals are low level, less consequential spells.
What I may do is allow a additional use of undying servitude or leave it at once per day and allow its power to scale with her level as if she was casting it with spell slots and create new invocations for create undead and danse macabre.
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So we are playing a higher level campaign, level 10 currently, one of the players characters died and since we are playing a planes walker-esque campaign she wants to play Liliana Vess as her new character and wants to do a warlock build stated similarly to the released character sheet with some changes, she asked though about making animate dead, danse macabre, and eventually create undead could be made rituals so she chould take the ritual caster feat for wizard. Im not sure how this will affect the balance of those spells and the game overall, what are your thoughts?
Those are very easily some of the most dangerous spells to turn into rituals. The fact that Animate Undead and Create Undead are limited in their spell use per-day is a huge part of their balancing feature. If your player can cast them all day long at zero resource cost, they can functionally turn every single body in a graveyard into their own personal army. Even if you remove the ability to reassert control over existing Undead, it still provides way, way too many Undead way, way too easily.
I do see how it can be hard to be a Warlock necromancer... their sheer lack of spell slots makes it hard to take full advantage of all the features that, say, a Wizard can enjoy. I think it's possible to pull something like this off, where the Warlock has some extra feature that allows them to create Undead servants outside of spellcasting (similar to how a Hexblade can turn a defeated enemy into a controllable spirit, or how Great Old One warlocks can enthrall a humanoid to be their servant), but those features generally only let you create one and have their own rules on how they work.
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Give them a magic rod or something that provides one cast of those given spells per day. As Trans said, these spells are easily abused in ritual form. There is good reason that almost all rituals are low level, less consequential spells.
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What I may do is allow a additional use of undying servitude or leave it at once per day and allow its power to scale with her level as if she was casting it with spell slots and create new invocations for create undead and danse macabre.