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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9094715" data-attributes="member: 87792">Spell components have in practice not really been a thing since 3.0 introduced the Spell Component Pouch (in theory containing an infinite number of live spiders) so you didn't have to track them. 4e introduced the focus in place of spell components. 5e uses a&nbsp; spellcasting focus (where you don't have to use non-expensive material component pouches) or a material component pouch (which is assumed to contain all the non-expensive material components you need) so you don't have to track them.In my experience almost every player uses the much more character-expressive spellcasting focuses and even the one wizard I've seen who used the component pouch used it as a character-expressive spellcasting focus and winged rather than looked up any material components.Other than a couple of rare and in universe expensive cases (mostly diamonds for resurrection) spell components so far as I can tell have been dead for 20 years and almost no one missed them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 9094715, member: 87792"] Spell components have in practice not really been a thing since 3.0 introduced the Spell Component Pouch (in theory containing an infinite number of live spiders) so you didn't have to track them. 4e introduced the focus in place of spell components. 5e uses a spellcasting focus (where you don't have to use non-expensive material component pouches) or a material component pouch (which is assumed to contain all the non-expensive material components you need) so you don't have to track them. In my experience almost every player uses the much more character-expressive spellcasting focuses and even the one wizard I've seen who used the component pouch used it as a character-expressive spellcasting focus and winged rather than looked up any material components. Other than a couple of rare and in universe expensive cases (mostly diamonds for resurrection) spell components so far as I can tell have been dead for 20 years and almost no one missed them. [/QUOTE]

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