Quote Originally Posted by Dr.Samurai View Post
Does anyone in the party ever use Ritual Casting? In ten minutes a rogue can clear 2,000ft of dungeon corridors at a slow pace, or search a room, or search 10 doors for traps, and notice monsters/threats ahead of time and go back to tell the party what's up ahead. Since they're doing this at a slow pace, they can use Stealth, and with, presumably Expertise, they will hopefully go unnoticed.
There's a conflict between in-game and table time here. Ritual casting takes ten minutes in-game, but it's essentially instant at the table. Clearing 2,000 feet of corridor might take ten minutes in-game, but at the table it requires rolls, descriptive dialogue, clarifying questions, and player and character decisions. If there's nothing in that 2,000 feet, then there's no value in the rogue clearing it; every thing in it, whether a door or a trap or a monster they find or whatever, adds extra table time to the task.