As a Paladin, once you have the ability to cast spells, a handful of those spells are able to be cast as Ritual Spells... but Paladin's don't have the ability to cast ritual spells.
The Ritual Caster feat specifies that you get a handful of ritual spells you can cast, and if you come cross any spells in written form, you can add them to your ritual spell book to be cast in the future.
Paladin spells do not require a spell book, so are never written down.
Does this mean that even though you can cast ritual spells, a paladin cannot cast the ritual spells he already has available to him unless they find it in written form also to them copy into his ritual spell book? The feat does not seem to give the character the ability to cast ritual spells, just the ability to cast the spells in the given spell book as rituals only.
Have GMs just given character's the ability to cast their ritual spells they have prepared that day with the Ritual Caster feat, or have they adhered to the strict tenets of the feat?
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Carley Simon, thanks for writing that song about me!
The feat is associated with a full caster class, and can only add rituals on that class list. Paladin is not a valid choice.
All (4) of the paladin rituals are first level spells and are on the cleric list. You could select half of them when you get the feat.
Spells may be on spell scrolls, which aren't associated with any class. If you find a scroll of a ritual that is on the spell list of the class you choose, you could add it to your ritual book.
The feat allows you to cast the rituals in the book, yes. You can add ritual spells from the class you select to the book, and any spell that you do add you can cast as a ritual. It is exactly like getting the ritual caster feature of the wizard class (the best ritual caster in the game) using a spell list of your choice except that you need to find all but two of your rituals rather than possibly gaining some through leveling.
Addition in the edit: The fact that you don't have to prepare the spells is exactly the selling point! That is the bit that makes Wizard ritual casting the best in the game: they can save their preparation slots for spells that they need to use slots on.
Paladin spells do not require a spell book, so are never written down.
Paladins can write spell scrolls of their spells, so you can absolutely write down Paladin spells to be copied into a ritual book.
As long as the spell is on the spell list for the class you chose for the Ritual Caster feat.
And on that note, Cleric covers all 4 paladin rituals, Druid gets 3 (no ceremony), and several other classes get 2 (missing purify food and drink but still gets the two detect rituals).
As a Paladin, once you have the ability to cast spells, a handful of those spells are able to be cast as Ritual Spells... but Paladin's don't have the ability to cast ritual spells.
The Ritual Caster feat specifies that you get a handful of ritual spells you can cast, and if you come cross any spells in written form, you can add them to your ritual spell book to be cast in the future.
Paladin spells do not require a spell book, so are never written down.
Does this mean that even though you can cast ritual spells, a paladin cannot cast the ritual spells he already has available to him unless they find it in written form also to them copy into his ritual spell book? The feat does not seem to give the character the ability to cast ritual spells, just the ability to cast the spells in the given spell book as rituals only.
Have GMs just given character's the ability to cast their ritual spells they have prepared that day with the Ritual Caster feat, or have they adhered to the strict tenets of the feat?
Carley Simon, thanks for writing that song about me!
That all seems like you have a handle on it.
Paladins can write spell scrolls of their spells, so you can absolutely write down Paladin spells to be copied into a ritual book.
As long as the spell is on the spell list for the class you chose for the Ritual Caster feat.
And on that note, Cleric covers all 4 paladin rituals, Druid gets 3 (no ceremony), and several other classes get 2 (missing purify food and drink but still gets the two detect rituals).