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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 3769072" data-attributes="member: 50987">Given the choice between having material components and books, or not having to mess with them, I think I would go with the &quot;no books or bat guano&quot; option.&nbsp; I've always thought it was a poor mechanic to slap a gold and XP price tag on spells to balance their power level.&nbsp; This hasn't been much of an issue for us in our games; all of our spellcasters use spell component pouches, and we haven't had a wizard at the table in years.I like how magic works in the Harry Potter universe: most wizards only need an arcane focus (a wand) to cast spells, in addition to the verbal (&quot;a-low-ha-MOR-ah&quot;) and somatic (&quot;swish and flick&quot;) components.&nbsp; There are no silly tomes or vials of bat droppings; wizards learn a spell and can toss them off at will.&nbsp; I hope that 4E does something similar with these Per Round, Per Encounter, and Per Day spells.If not, I'll house-rule the bejesus out of it.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 3769072, member: 50987"] Given the choice between having material components and books, or not having to mess with them, I think I would go with the "no books or bat guano" option. I've always thought it was a poor mechanic to slap a gold and XP price tag on spells to balance their power level. This hasn't been much of an issue for us in our games; all of our spellcasters use spell component pouches, and we haven't had a wizard at the table in years. I like how magic works in the Harry Potter universe: most wizards only need an arcane focus (a wand) to cast spells, in addition to the verbal ("a-low-ha-MOR-ah") and somatic ("swish and flick") components. There are no silly tomes or vials of bat droppings; wizards learn a spell and can toss them off at will. I hope that 4E does something similar with these Per Round, Per Encounter, and Per Day spells. If not, I'll house-rule the bejesus out of it. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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