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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 1184514" data-attributes="member: 5890">The simplest way is to simply say"you can describe the focus or material component for a spell in any way you see fit"That way when someone buys themselves a bag of material components, they can instead say "the gp I expended represents the intricate carvings on my staff, which I need to work my magics", or "It represents the tattoos which run up my arms and across my back", or whatever.Expendable components simply need to be taken good care of - instead of diamond dust for stoneskin, it could be a rare magical tatooing ink which gradually fades (the player buys 10 doses at a time).Simply put - if it's mechanically the same, the flavour is mutable.</blockquote>