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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7400612" data-attributes="member: 58172">I love magic, and 3e is good in many ways at high magic.A fourth request for P2 ...I hate the material component, because it always feels like the ingredients are magic, not the mage. I prefer innate magic.4e and 5e are tolerable because you can replace material component with an implement focus like a wand.But it would be even better, if a character can use ones own voice, or hands, or eyes, or thought, instead of the material component. Make the magic be ones own character.Make magic feel more innate. Eschew the material component for players who hate it!Especially eliminate the ‘costly’ material component that requires gp, or gp disguised as diamonds. Wealth is too dependent on setting, and is *impossible* to balance around. It is a nonsense mechanic that only causes problems for worldbuilder DMs.Likewise eliminate the xp component, if any. If the entire game revolves arounds ‘spending’ xp to ‘purchase’ permanent features it might work, but for D&D, it just distorts party advancement.Some bard concepts just *sing* (or recite poetry, or do political oration). Make sure the bard can also eschew the instrumental material component. This is especially important to me because the historically accurate skald − the viking style bard − only sings and never uses musical instruments of any kind. (The skald also associates with a kind of galdr magic that relies on improvisational chanting and translates into D&D as protective ‘abjuration’ magic including healing and resurrection, and even Wish, called ‘need’.)Using a material component for a ritual that takes about 15 minutes, is fine, however, preferably non-consumable unless it inherently requires consumption, like drinking a glass of wine. In this case, the ritual component might substitute the use of a spell slot.Even when creating magic items, I still want to keep gp costs out of the balancing formulas. Level appropriate magic and resonance are better mechanics for magic − including magic research.</blockquote>

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