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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6643246" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya.No, not "technically correct". A material component is one potential requirement. Verbalization is also a potential requirement. Somatic gestures are also potential requirements.By talking about only one, it does NOT NEGATE the other ones. *IF* a spell has Somatic as a requirement, it doesn't matter if the spell also has Verbal and/or Material. Those two others are irrelivent. The spell requires Somatic gestures. Period.That right there is all you need to read. Anything you may infer from some other section of the book should be taken as "secondary in determination", as this is the actual "rule" for Somatic components.What was quoted a few posts above... the "...use a component pouch or a spellcasting focus in place of the components..." only refers to Material components (see PHB 151, under the actual description of "Component Pouch"; it specifically says "material components"). On top of ALL of that, there is still that little fact that everything quoted in the posts above (OP included), come from the description under the heading Material (M) on PHB 203. In other words, Material Component of a spell ONLY. So all of the stuff under that heading should be looked at as "regarding [this heading]". How anyone could read sentences from multiple different locations and then concoct some rationalization for a blatant attempt at power-gaming-rules-lawyering is just.... well, it makes me sad. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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