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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9527169" data-attributes="member: 71699">[USER=6854936]@Sorcerers Apprentice[/USER] Although I don't find the text ambiguous, it's possible that it doesn't say what it intends to say. Were that so, then we've no explanation for it not being updated accordingly in 2024.*It would also make the mechanical explanation of a spellcasting focus hard to properly explain, seeing as if "holding a spellcasting focus" meant that M and S components were both covered then surely the text could say exactly that. ConsiderSpellcasting Focus If they have a feature that allows it, a spellcaster can perform somatic gestures with a Spellcasting Focus they are holding and substitute using that focus for providing materials that are neither consumed nor specify a cost. Instead, you're assuming the designers thought your reading sufficiently well implied notwithstanding that they had previously felt compelled to publish Sage Advice on that very matter. *EDIT As a footnote, I do find you reasoning "a spellcasting focus replaces certain materials so that anywhere said materials appear in the text can be interchangeably read as a reference to the focus" sound. Above, I'm focused on the RAW in the context that it was not meaningfully revised even though it was formerly deemed inaccurate. It ought to be preferred that the text means what it plainly says, rather than what it might be inferred to say.</blockquote>