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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6367809" data-attributes="member: 92511">Well, yeah, if you use such a thing as &quot;a component pouch&quot; that miraculously has spaces for all of your various and sundries to be in the same single bag without getting crushed, tainted, wet, mushing all up together and becoming worthless.I'm from the era where your material components were kept in pouches...on your belt, up your sleeve, in a pocket inside your cloak, the bottom of your shoe...Maybe a feather tucked into your hat was usable as a component, the fur lining of your robe sleeves, the little pieces of amethyst tied into the knots of your shirt laces, and, yes, a small sack of sand, a sack of bat guano, a sack with pearls and amber rods wrapped in fur. Their purchase and replenishment were not really a part of our play. It was assumed, for the small stuff, as you moved through the wilderness, the mage was gathering up bits and bobs as they found them and stashing them somewhere. Same for druids and their plants, acorns and berries.So the idea of easily taking away the material components wasn't really ever had...Divesting a mage of their 'wizardly things&quot; was something that could be done upon capture/imprisonment (if the captors were savy enough to know what to take), but that basically meant you were stripped to all but naked. Don't get me wrong, thwarting a mage was common. Casting interruption/&quot;losing the spell&quot; happened all the time...it just didn't depend on material components.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 6367809, member: 92511"] Well, yeah, if you use such a thing as "[B][I]a[/I][/B] component pouch" that miraculously has spaces for all of your various and sundries to be in the same single bag without getting crushed, tainted, wet, mushing all up together and becoming worthless. I'm from the era where your material components were kept in pouch[B][I]es[/I][/B]...on your belt, up your sleeve, in a pocket inside your cloak, the bottom of your shoe...Maybe a feather tucked into your hat was usable as a component, the fur lining of your robe sleeves, the little pieces of amethyst tied into the knots of your shirt laces, and, yes, a small sack of sand, a sack of bat guano, a sack with pearls and amber rods wrapped in fur. Their purchase and replenishment were not really a part of our play. It was assumed, for the small stuff, as you moved through the wilderness, the mage was gathering up bits and bobs as they found them and stashing them somewhere. Same for druids and their plants, acorns and berries. So the idea of easily taking away the material components wasn't really ever had...Divesting a mage of their 'wizardly things" was something that could be done upon capture/imprisonment (if the captors were savy enough to know what to take), but that basically meant you were stripped to all but naked. Don't get me wrong, thwarting a mage was common. Casting interruption/"losing the spell" happened all the time...it just didn't depend on material components. [/QUOTE]

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