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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smerg" data-source="post: 3918537" data-attributes="member: 57427">This is a mixture of two concepts.The first idea is the requirement for material items.  Clerics had it easy as they could by one small wood icon at level 1 and still be using it at level 20.  Mages were 'technically' supposed to be hunting down bits of bat guano, broken mirrors, and all sorts of other unusual items.  The concept was to simply the lists of material items (tons of fluff with little to no crunch value -- this also saves lines of text over some 300+ spells which can go to better spells and items).The second idea is the metamagic rods of 3.0.  The idea that some piece of carved wood that a priest gets at level 1 is the same piece of wood that the Pope (or other level 20 church official) uses to unleash divine magic seems a stretch.  History is filled with descriptions of relics that are passed down from cleric to cleric.  The same goes for mages where famous wands, staves, orbs, and tombs are transfered from master to apprentice depending on the level of the apprentice to use and manipulate an item.These two ideas are very iconic to the nature of magical or divine spells in our understanding of the world and it saves having to say that your mage (when no one is looking) is running to the local bat cave for more guano.</blockquote>