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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 6143713" data-attributes="member: 2303">Repeated ad nauseum: I am with Pemerton in this. The issue here isn't convenience, or rules. It is style. If a player doesn't WANT a spell component pouch cluttering his style and making him smell like a lab rat, and said component pouch has no function but style anyway, why make it mandatory? Why force everyone to look like the Unearthed Arcana wizard or 3E's Mialee? In short, style is a part of the "Golden Box" that player should have exclusive control over - his own character, it's personality, and style. Sure, the rules set a framework for this - classes, races etc - but they should not do this "just because". The framework is the crunch of the game, the rules that gives the game structure and empowers the PCs and monsters. The framework should leave style alone as much as possible.</blockquote>