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Message: <blockquote data-quote="F5" data-source="post: 2765969" data-attributes="member: 4607">I love eschew materials.  This is strictly hosuerule territory, but I dislike material components, so I let all casters get cheap access to equipment that duplicates the effects of this feat:Magic wands.  Not like the kind you can craft, but the classical kinds of magic wands, that wizards use to focus their powers.  In game terms, call it a Metamagic Rod of Eschew Materials, with unlimited uses per day, the large cost of this is mitigated by special materials that make this (and ONLY this) magic item very cheap to craft.  Cheap enough that Master Wizards often buy or make one for their students.  They don't HAVE to be wands.  Clerics can have a kind of scepter with their holy symbol on it.  Druids can have a Hawthorne branch twined with dried holly berries.  Whatever, as long as it means I don't have to deal with a diligent player taking time out of an adventure to replenish his guano supply.You can still use components if you like them.  Expensive components and foci still need to be obtained.  And you can still get the drama of having a caster cut off from his spellcasting tools and "helpless", if that kind of thing floats your boat.  But it seems a lot less silly to me than having a mighty wizard rooting around in a bag for a ball of twine and a black feather (or whatever).</blockquote>