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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7555291" data-attributes="member: 1465">In our family game, I keep it simple and don't really look at the spells components (except expensive ingredients). I would enforce them only in extreme circumstances such as being tied up prisoners (somatic) or under a Silence spell (verbal). Anything less I don't bother to make it an obstacle.In more general terms, I think it's nice to keep track of &quot;free hands&quot; as an interesting tactical element of the game. Unfortunately I have never seen a RPG game that treats this topic sensibly and in a balanced way... Typically, in gaming groups where somatic components are enforced there is a notable bias in favor of Clerics who are allowed a lot of tricks to circumvent the problem, while Wizards and others just have to suck it up. In addition, every edition has its own loopholes in the action economy that can be exploited. So I just prefer to forget the whole mess.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7555291, member: 1465"] In our family game, I keep it simple and don't really look at the spells components (except expensive ingredients). I would enforce them only in extreme circumstances such as being tied up prisoners (somatic) or under a [I]Silence[/I] spell (verbal). Anything less I don't bother to make it an obstacle. In more general terms, I think it's nice to keep track of "free hands" as an interesting tactical element of the game. Unfortunately I have never seen a RPG game that treats this topic sensibly and in a balanced way... Typically, in gaming groups where somatic components are enforced there is a notable bias in favor of Clerics who are allowed a lot of tricks to circumvent the problem, while Wizards and others just have to suck it up. In addition, every edition has its own loopholes in the action economy that can be exploited. So I just prefer to forget the whole mess. [/QUOTE]

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