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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8070389" data-attributes="member: 7006">Because barely anyone ever actually uses them.I can understand why the 5E designers left spell components in the game in the first place... they knew 99% of the tables would never use them, but that there would be that 1% that found them exceedingly important.&nbsp; So why not give it to them?&nbsp; Did it hurt anyone for them to put a couple small words like &quot;bat guano&quot; in every spell block for flavor text if nothing else?&nbsp; Nope!&nbsp; Considering that if I had to venture a guess, most were probably just copied wholesale from previous books anyways.&nbsp; So all those VSMs would be skipped and ignored by most people like they always were, but the few tables that wanted them probably appreciated it.But that being said... if Morrus is truly going to write a completely new book from the ground up... unless the &quot;Advanced&quot; part of the game is going to go more in-depth in making components and handiness a thing to deal with as part of the game... it can all be jettisoned.&nbsp; There is no reason not to keep anything in the game that isn't made specially Advanced for it... especially if barely anyone uses it in the base game as it is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8070389, member: 7006"] Because barely anyone ever actually uses them. I can understand why the 5E designers left spell components in the game in the first place... they knew 99% of the tables would never use them, but that there would be that 1% that found them exceedingly important. So why not give it to them? Did it hurt anyone for them to put a couple small words like "bat guano" in every spell block for flavor text if nothing else? Nope! Considering that if I had to venture a guess, most were probably just copied wholesale from previous books anyways. So all those VSMs would be skipped and ignored by most people like they always were, but the few tables that wanted them probably appreciated it. But that being said... if Morrus is truly going to write a completely new book from the ground up... unless the "Advanced" part of the game is going to go more in-depth in making components and handiness a thing to deal with as part of the game... it can all be jettisoned. There is no reason not to keep anything in the game that isn't made specially Advanced for it... especially if barely anyone uses it in the base game as it is. [/QUOTE]

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