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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EscherEnigma" data-source="post: 8098235" data-attributes="member: 6750014">Well, some aren't jokes, but they are all references.And the important part: they are all written by authors in the real world, and I guarantee that if you averaged out how much those authors cared about in-story narrative explanations behind choice of material components for spells, you would find that you cared more about such explanations then they did.When you remember that for most of the editions the writers were more interested in making a fun game then simulating a fantasy world?Well, it becomes pretty obvious that if you want a narrative explanation, you'll have to invent one yourself.My point is that you're looking at the result of a meta decision (only listing one possible material component in most cases) and trying to derive in-game meaning.  That the attempts to justify and explain are tortured is pretty easy to understand in that context.</blockquote>