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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6995654" data-attributes="member: 6701872">Since the difference in 3.x was already mentioned, I'll just cover 2nd ed as a (not likely to be useful) history lesson;In 2nd edition, the default rule was actually that spells didn't have specific components to track. You needed to be able to speak clearly and gesture with hands/arms for every spell, but there were no materials required for any spell.An optional rule was included in the book that made it so that each spell might or might not require verbal, somatic, or material components, and if a material component was listed it was consumed in the casting of the spell.Of course, the presentation - a side-bar tucked away in a different chapter than the spell lists, and every spell description including a line saying which type(s) of component were necessary and if a material was required what it was being mentioned right there in the description - did lead to some confusion regarding what the default assumed rule on the matter was. Because of reasonable questions like &quot;If this is actually optional, why is it incorporated into the format of every spell in the book instead of listed in the part of the book that says &quot;Here's an optional rule&quot;?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6995654, member: 6701872"] Since the difference in 3.x was already mentioned, I'll just cover 2nd ed as a (not likely to be useful) history lesson; In 2nd edition, the default rule was actually that spells didn't have specific components to track. You needed to be able to speak clearly and gesture with hands/arms for every spell, but there were no materials required for any spell. An optional rule was included in the book that made it so that each spell might or might not require verbal, somatic, or material components, and if a material component was listed it was consumed in the casting of the spell. Of course, the presentation - a side-bar tucked away in a different chapter than the spell lists, and every spell description including a line saying which type(s) of component were necessary and if a material was required what it was being mentioned right there in the description - did lead to some confusion regarding what the default assumed rule on the matter was. Because of reasonable questions like "If this is actually optional, why is it incorporated into the format of every spell in the book instead of listed in the part of the book that says "Here's an optional rule"?" [/QUOTE]

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