{"id":17859,"date":"2025-05-28T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:45:08","slug":"ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/2025\/05\/28\/ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ritual is a type of magic that doesn&#8217;t require you to be able to see your<br \/>target, but does take a fair bit of time and energy. Characters need at least<br \/>ritualism 1 to be able to perform rituals. They are also quite time<br \/>consuming,<br \/>taking generally two hours to complete, although those with the incantation<br \/>stat can reduce this significantly. If a character is attacked, struck or<br \/>pinned while attempting a ritual it will fail and they will have to start<br \/>again.<\/p>\n<p>Life Force Costs per level of Ritualism: 1: 21%, 2: 12%, 3: 9%, 4: 6%, 5: 4%<\/p>\n<p>Some rituals are more or less expensive however. If a character performing<br \/>a ritual is taken below 75% life force they may pass out for a time, or if<br \/>taken below 60% may even die. The power of the ritual when it strikes is<br \/>determined by the arcane focus of the practitioner and the tier of the target.<br \/>Rituals that finish during the witching hour, 3AM to 4AM, cost less life<br \/>force.<\/p>\n<p>Mental Manipulation Rituals: See: HELP MENTAL RITUALS<\/p>\n<p>Enhancements Rituals: See: HELP ENHANCEMENTS RITUALS<\/p>\n<p>Protection \/ Curing Rituals: See: HELP PROTECTION RITUALS<\/p>\n<p>Property Rituals: See: HELP PROPERTY RITUALS<\/p>\n<p>Ghost Rituals: See: HELP GHOST RITUALS<\/p>\n<p>Temporal Rituals: See: HELP TEMPORAL RITUALS<\/p>\n<p>Antagonising Rituals: See: HELP ANTAG RITUALS<\/p>\n<p>All curses and hexes can now be cast with: ritual (type) (target) maintain<\/p>\n<p>This form costs half as much upfront and will continue the effect until the<br \/>caster terminates it with ritual terminate. While maintaining the spell the<br \/>caster is at -10% life force. Being the target of severe pain victimize has<br \/>a chance to terminate these rituals early.<\/p>\n<p>Using maintain requires ritualism level 2 or arcane focus level 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ritual is a type of magic that doesn&#8217;t require you to be able to see yourtarget, but does take a fair bit of time and energy. Characters need at leastritualism 1 to be able to perform rituals. They are also quite timeconsuming,taking generally two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helpfile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}