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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9770380" data-attributes="member: 22779">Meh.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; No one even tracks components anymore.&nbsp; You have a spell component case and that's the end of the tracking.&nbsp; And, let's be honest, the reason for this is because for the past forty or so years, while every single PHB has listed spell components, unless they were expensive, no one cared.If you were stripped of equipment?&nbsp; Ok, fair enough.&nbsp; Then it matters.&nbsp; But 99.9% of the time?&nbsp; No one remotely cared.&nbsp; I remember way back in the 80's having a DM who insisted on tracking sand for sleep spells because, as he put it, you needed to blow the sand at the target.&nbsp; I pointed out that Sleep had an alternative spell component - a cricket's leg - that wasn't used in casting, so, I just wrote cricket's leg on my character sheet and never had to worry about it again.You need bat guano for a fireball.&nbsp; Exactly how much?&nbsp; A pinch?&nbsp; An ounce?&nbsp; How many castings per ounce of guano do you get?&nbsp; Tracking this sort of stuff is pointless busywork that pretty much went the way of armor vs weapon adjustments.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9770380, member: 22779"] Meh. Why? No one even tracks components anymore. You have a spell component case and that's the end of the tracking. And, let's be honest, the reason for this is because for the past forty or so years, while every single PHB has listed spell components, unless they were expensive, no one cared. If you were stripped of equipment? Ok, fair enough. Then it matters. But 99.9% of the time? No one remotely cared. I remember way back in the 80's having a DM who insisted on tracking sand for sleep spells because, as he put it, you needed to blow the sand at the target. I pointed out that Sleep had an alternative spell component - a cricket's leg - that wasn't used in casting, so, I just wrote cricket's leg on my character sheet and never had to worry about it again. You need bat guano for a fireball. Exactly how much? A pinch? An ounce? How many castings per ounce of guano do you get? Tracking this sort of stuff is pointless busywork that pretty much went the way of armor vs weapon adjustments. [/QUOTE]

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