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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Otterscrubber" data-source="post: 1328574" data-attributes="member: 4588">I hate material components and so do most people I've gamed with.  I understand needing components for powerful spells, that seems to have some flavor but most components are just kinda lame.  Really, who is gonna keep a spider living on them all the time?  If components were implemented realistically they would be useless in combat situations, not to mention the reasoning that prompted this thread.  Who is gonna reach into his robe, find the jar with the spiders (or batfur or whatever), unscrew the lid, grab one of the 10 spiders in there, carefully replace the lid so the others dont get out, put it back and then cast a spell with an orc running at you?  By the way you're doing this one handed since you have a staff in your other hand. Not to mention that any decent wizards would have so many components on them you would need a wallmart-like inventory system just to find anything.  In every campaign I've played in we have almost always treated casters as having eschew materials, long before that feat came out and detailed it.</blockquote>