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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WarDriveWorley" data-source="post: 8598038" data-attributes="member: 6704190"><p>What tetrasodium said. Also I kind of hand wave it a bit and let players count the components found as kind of a shadow resource that they can quantify them once they have enough. So let's say my party is traveling and the mage is gathering components while doing so. They travel for a week and he finds 75 gp worth of components. Looking at his spells he doesn't have anything with costly components so he continues to just track them as "components". The following week he finds another 40 gp worth and asks me if he can "trade" 100 gp of the components he has for a 100 gp diamond for identify. Me, being the kind and generous DM I am <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />, allow it so the mage now has the diamond for identify, plus another 15 gp of "components". that can be used later as appropriate.</p></blockquote><p></p>