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<blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 3756022" data-attributes="member: 46559">From his position safely behind the couch, Tommy offers a rambling discourse on the uses of spell components in magical traps and magical devices, occasionally making helpful suggestions.&nbsp; &quot;Keldar, the device in the dias that summoned the earth elementals included several unlit candles and a small bag of earth, which are not coincidentally the arcane spell components for monster summoning spells.&nbsp; As you no doubt know, the candle is often used as a component in spells that reach across planes, perhaps because it represents a tiny, controlled portal to the plane of fire.&nbsp; The bag represents control, as one wants to command whatever it is one summons.&nbsp; Now in the course of a normal summon monster spell prepared from spellbooks, the contents of the bag do not matter, but perhaps when constructing a summoning device, the contents of the bag can serve as a proxy for the summoner's will to determine what kind of creature is summoned.&nbsp; For example to reset the device on the dias to summon fire elementals, perhaps I could have substituted a bag of ash or sulfur.&nbsp; Oh, and of course, in a fireplace, the components will presumably be shielded somehow from the heat, particularly the candles, if they are still necessary in a more sophisticated version of the device.&quot;ooc:&nbsp; That was fun, but I'm gonna stop now 'cause my email notification just told me Rae posted, so I'm probably too late to assist anyways.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="covaithe, post: 3756022, member: 46559"] From his position safely behind the couch, Tommy offers a rambling discourse on the uses of spell components in magical traps and magical devices, occasionally making helpful suggestions. [color=silver]"Keldar, the device in the dias that summoned the earth elementals included several unlit candles and a small bag of earth, which are not coincidentally the arcane spell components for monster summoning spells. As you no doubt know, the candle is often used as a component in spells that reach across planes, perhaps because it represents a tiny, controlled portal to the plane of fire. The bag represents control, as one wants to command whatever it is one summons. Now in the course of a normal summon monster spell prepared from spellbooks, the contents of the bag do not matter, but perhaps when constructing a summoning device, the contents of the bag can serve as a proxy for the summoner's will to determine what kind of creature is summoned. For example to reset the device on the dias to summon fire elementals, perhaps I could have substituted a bag of ash or sulfur. Oh, and of course, in a fireplace, the components will presumably be shielded somehow from the heat, particularly the candles, if they are still necessary in a more sophisticated version of the device."[/color] ooc: That was fun, but I'm gonna stop now 'cause my email notification just told me Rae posted, so I'm probably too late to assist anyways. :) [/QUOTE]

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