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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 695686" data-attributes="member: 354">It might. It might not. Because this really (provided the wizard is willing to jump through the hoops) wouldn't change balance much. It would just make keeping the same balance take a lot of paperwork and hassle. As someone else mentioned, just axe material components then. It's really a lot less of a hassle, and personaly I find most material components just *silly*. The tiny jam tarts, for example. I mean, have you ever stopped to consider just what a spellcasters pouches must look like inside after a day of travel? Bat dung and jam spread everywhere, crumbs, sand, etc stuck in the goo, crushed feathers and flowers strewn everywhere...I would suggest that if you can't find sand, you're probably not looking very hard, unless you live in a major metropolitan area or something, which is hardly a fair example of mideval life. It doesn't exactly grow on trees, but it's not so hard to find that it shouldn't be readily availible most places... Figure if it's within a days travel by horse, it's probably "availible" to purchase in the city fairly inexpensivly. Esp. in a world with a ready need for sand like a fantasty world would in the default DnD world view. I'll give you some of the ingredients, yes. Bat dung, for example, or rabbit fur (Is that still one? Honestly, I havn't read the material components for any 3E spells, ever to my knowledge. Myself and most people around here ditched mundane material components long ago). But most of those still shouldn't cost that much in small amounts that a wizard couldn't just say "I'm stocking up" and turn over a silver peice once a week or so.Well, as I say, I canned material components. But before I did? Not often, but it didn't bother me. They also don't generaly tell me they go to the bathroom, the fighter doesn't generaly tell me they sharpen their sword, the ranger doesn't generaly tell me she does her stretches in the morning to keep limber, etc. But I assume they do. If a player mentions it specificly, I make a note of it, toss out a tiny bit of bonus RP experience when I hand out experience that session... But otherwise, no. It's just considered "part of life". I generaly assume that anything a person does their entire life for an unspecified but fairly brief duration just happens. Otherwise we spend an hour in the city while players describe stuff that in no way impacts the actual world or game.</blockquote>

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