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<blockquote data-quote="J.Quondam" data-source="post: 8397095" data-attributes="member: 7030100">By my reading of &quot;in place of&quot;, literal RAW is that the component pouch replaces the need to track components; ie, it's assumed always to have the components in it. In the fiction, I just assume that the caster is constantly restocking it whenever they come across a pile of bat poop and whatnot.And that seems fine to me, too. Most of the time, casters' components &quot;just work.&quot; But there's this component pouch (like any other focus) that can be swept away in a flood or something, forcing the caster to track components for a little while until they can get a new one. If a player is into that sort of thing, it can be a minor, temporary hardship to impose on a caster, without being terribly onerous over the whole campaign.ETA: It's not terribly relevant here, but in 3.5e RAW was &quot;Don’t bother to keep track of material components with negligible cost,&quot; on the assumption that the pouch always contains the necessary items.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="J.Quondam, post: 8397095, member: 7030100"] By my reading of "in place of", literal RAW is that the component pouch [I]replaces[/I] the need to track components; ie, it's assumed always to have the components in it. In the fiction, I just assume that the caster is constantly restocking it whenever they come across a pile of bat poop and whatnot. And that seems fine to me, too. Most of the time, casters' components "just work." But there's this component pouch (like any other focus) that can be swept away in a flood or something, forcing the caster to track components for a little while until they can get a new one. If a player is into that sort of thing, it can be a minor, temporary hardship to impose on a caster, without being terribly onerous over the whole campaign. ETA: It's not terribly relevant here, but in 3.5e RAW was [I]"Don’t bother to keep track of material components with negligible cost,"[/I] on the assumption that the pouch always contains the necessary items. [/QUOTE]

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