tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post2625269400559855967..comments2024-03-01T11:52:44.729-05:00Comments on Bat in the Attic: Hanging out at the Sorceror's SupplyRobert Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863009007381185340noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-77016819662924849272009-08-31T16:12:22.723-04:002009-08-31T16:12:22.723-04:00Material components are already part of AD&D. ...Material components are already part of AD&D. The system is written to expect players to have the components on hand. <br /><br />However not many play that way as it is a fiddly rule to use. Certain we never did.<br /><br />Probably made a part of AD&D because Magic Users start to overshadow the other classes after the middle levels. <br /><br />Likely just simulation run amuck as far as AD&D is concerned.<br /><br />My suggestion is a less fiddly way to play AD&D as Gygax wrote it.Robert Conleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03863009007381185340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-46193013181026686662009-08-31T12:55:35.920-04:002009-08-31T12:55:35.920-04:00Well under that train of thought lets make Warrior...Well under that train of thought lets make Warriors have to maintain their weapons and armor like they would have to. We could add a modify for environment. Trust me I never cleaned a weapon and equipment more than I did in the sands of Iraq. Lets also make thieves interact with their counter parts to get gear they need to do their job. There has to come a time when you say enough is enough or you wind up committing suicide while hunting a cow in the rain.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03507176128569469008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-86130451791474233982009-08-31T12:16:31.831-04:002009-08-31T12:16:31.831-04:00You know how a lot of the expensive material compo...You know how a lot of the expensive material components in the PHB don't get used up? In 3E they called these Focus components rather than Material components. <br /><br />We used to say that if the spell required a component but didn't give a price, you are assumed to have some with you. <br /><br />If the spell had a cost for the component, you had to actually have that thing. <br /><br />Except for when a cost was a balancing factor in the power of the spell, components were just for roleplaying. You have to swallow a live carp to cast Identify, etc. <br /><br />You could make this far more light in book-keeping if you just cared about quality of the components. For example, colored powders and rainwater. Every month you have to throw a parcel of money at the Wizard Guild for membership fees. This gives you the opportunity to trade spells and minor magic items, information, and spell components. <br /><br />If you don't have a current membership, your components are either expired (you bought them when you did have a membership) or low-quality (you gathered them yourself or bought them from a non-guild Wizard). The result is that if you have a current membership, your spells work normally. If you don't have one, your spells all have a 5% spell failure chance. Or just the ones with material components. <br /><br />And the guild has your file on record, so you can pay ahead of time for many months and just stop in now and then to pick up more components. But if the PHB doesn't list a cost, you don't have to pay for them. Assume that money is a fraction of a copper piece that gets lost in rounding errors when converting to another currency ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904133056957353312.post-29573101804721358382009-08-31T12:15:19.004-04:002009-08-31T12:15:19.004-04:00Nice. Finally, spell component rules that make sen...Nice. Finally, spell component rules that make sense from multiple points of view and aren't just the DM (or the rules) messing with you. I could work with these.<br /><br />Fine work, as usual!Will Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379173017869751088noreply@blogger.com