So, I was mulling over how the Ritual skill, Rites, and harmony all work in conjunction, as I was planning on building this up for Emily.
The problem I see is that certain Rites require such a high number of Successes, even stacking bonuses makes them very difficult to pull off. Case in point - Rite of Contrition. It's interesting for Spirit RP but even a rank 2 spirit requires 20 successes. Under usual circumstances Emily has Harmony 7, so she gets 7 rolls of 7 dice, 49. Already this is more than the expected number of successes on that many dice.
Even some of the easier bonuses (Dalu, near a locus) only bump this up to (9*7) 63 dice, making anything that is 10 successes per rank really challenging to pull off (unless the bonuses add to the number of times you can roll for a rite as well in which case their's actually less of an issue). Unless you spend time clawing up the Harmony Ladder, which is kinda hard in a lot of ways.
Rituals are a big part of the Uratha and how they interact with the spirit (IMO). I know this has always been a bit of a problem with RAW Rituals. But in PbP, I would have thought no-one really wants go through reams of code of my ritual rolls for something that can (a lot of the time) only formalizes something IC that's roleplayed out, a la Rite of Dedication. So I thought, rather than get myself in a knot about rituals, and numbers, I thought I'd throw this out to see what people thought.
Would having certain rites be enough to hand-wave certain things in the interests of expedience for PbP? Would people want to pull off RAW rites each time? I just thought it might be good to ask before splashing out on rites Emily won't realistically pull off a lot of the time.