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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ath'kethin" data-source="post: 9538508" data-attributes="member: 6798775">I loved the idea of spell components when I first read the Dragonlance Chronicles (not realizing at the time what D&D was or that the books had anything to do with it). The need to have specific, bizarre items in order to make magic happen just seemed so . . . realistic, and was a novel concept for 11-ish year old me. When I started running [2nd Edition A]D&D a few years later, I was a stickler for spell components.  My players were game enough, and we kept careful track of who had what and in what quantities. But as time went on (and once I obtained and read the Basic D&D Rules Cyclopedia), I started to care less and less about it. And these days, some 30 years after I started, that level of pickiness and micromanagement just seems like whole lot of work.</blockquote>