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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 6539310" data-attributes="member: 5890">1. There's basically no flavour anywhere about exactly what somatic and verbal components consist of.2. The crunch merely says that verbal components cannot be produced while gagged or silenced, and somatic components require free use of at least one hand, which can be the same hand that is manipulating material components.Given that, I'd be happy to say that verbal components can be muttered under your breath and somatic components can be concealed behind your back, so spellcasting in a social situation or while trying to be stealthy is definitely doable. I would probably also say that there's going to be a social stigma involved with muttering under your breath and concealing your hands in polite society.Additionally I would say that this will vary from spell to spell, casting accoutrement to casting accoutrement and from from caster to caster.I would expect in most cases power words need to be shouted for instance, while suggestion is merely an inflection placed on the words that make up the suggestion itself, and could thus potentially be said in polite conversation without raising much notice. I would expect that in most cases a holy symbol, wand, staff or other focus needs to be brandished, while components can be more subtle. In my head a paladin of devotion casts zone of truth by reading out rights or by beseeching the powers that be to allow no deception within it's radius, an oath of vengeance paladin casts it with a dirty harry-style speech and an oath of the ancients paladin drops it in the middle of a potentially incriminating sentence with a muttered word, a smirk and a twinkle in their eye.</blockquote>

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