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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1789174" data-attributes="member: 1465">It's hard to say which level increase would be appropriate...Usually - but not always - a spell has a costly material comp when it has a permanent effect, and I think you should decide on a case by case. See some lower-level examples:Permanent:Identify 100gpArcane Lock 25gpContinual Flame 50gpPhantom Trap 50gpAnimate Dead 25gp/HDWall of Iron 50gpPermanent until discharged:Magic Mouth 10gpSepia Snake Sigil 500gpFire Trap 25gpSymbol 1000gp or 5000gpProgrammed Image 25gpNot permanent:Nondetection 50gpIllusory Script 50gpStoneskin 250gpFalse Vision 250gpLegend Lore 250gpTrue Seeing 250gpSome of them are used to make traps, so the cost is simply to prevent free traps around. Other make items like holy water or continual flame, and basically you pay for the item.However the nonpermanent spells IMO they just have a cost because they are very good spells, and they don't want you to cast them every single day or every single encounter without a cost, especially Nondetection, Stoneskin and True Seeing. However I see no reasons why they couldn't just put them at higher levels, something like +3 would be reasonable (maybe +2 for True Seeing).</blockquote>