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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7501350" data-attributes="member: 97077">I probably wouldn't do this in any of my games, but if I did, it would likely be handled as foraging (see Basic Rules, &quot;Activities While Traveling&quot; pages 64-65 and DMG, &quot;Foraging&quot; page 111). So, while the PCs are traveling the wilderness or a dungeon, the spellcaster can opt to forage if the party is going at a slow pace. A passive Wisdom (Survival) check would resolve the outcome, if it's in question. The risk in doing this for the spellcaster is that he or she is automatically surprised if a wandering monster happens upon the party (and is trying to be stealthy). The other trade-off is that, unlike foraging food and water, this could reasonably be established as a little trickier and the group can only travel at a slow pace instead of a slow or normal pace. In a game like mine, traveling at a slow pace likely means you have less time to complete your quest and risk failure and, the longer you take to get around, the higher the frequency of wandering monster checks. Rather than be about foraging specific items and keeping track of them, it would have to be something like you got the components or you don't. I'm not sure how I'd work that part out exactly, but I certainly would not get so granular as have the spellcasters track specific components outside of ones that cost an appreciable amount of gold.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 7501350, member: 97077"] I probably wouldn't do this in any of my games, but if I did, it would likely be handled as [I]foraging[/I] (see Basic Rules, "Activities While Traveling" pages 64-65 and DMG, "Foraging" page 111). So, while the PCs are traveling the wilderness or a dungeon, the spellcaster can opt to forage if the party is going at a slow pace. A passive Wisdom (Survival) check would resolve the outcome, if it's in question. The risk in doing this for the spellcaster is that he or she is automatically surprised if a wandering monster happens upon the party (and is trying to be stealthy). The other trade-off is that, unlike foraging food and water, this could reasonably be established as a little trickier and the group can only travel at a slow pace instead of a slow or normal pace. In a game like mine, traveling at a slow pace likely means you have less time to complete your quest and risk failure and, the longer you take to get around, the higher the frequency of wandering monster checks. Rather than be about foraging specific items and keeping track of them, it would have to be something like you got the components or you don't. I'm not sure how I'd work that part out exactly, but I certainly would not get so granular as have the spellcasters track specific components outside of ones that cost an appreciable amount of gold. [/QUOTE]

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