| Sean K Reynolds Contributor |
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I hate no-cost material components in spells. They're either pointless, or in-jokes, or puns, and they have no game effect except to make casting M spells more difficult or impossible in certain circumstances, and they required creating the MacGuffin Component Pouch Rule (aka "I never spend money on this, I automatically fill it up whenever I'm in town even if this desert town doesn't have any water from melted snow and thus I shouldn't really be able to get the M component for my favorite ice spell, blah blah blah, yet I still can't cast these spells if I lose this not-a-magic-item pouch"), and they're often accidentally overlooked when those circumstances come up, which means you end up with instances of "oh, I shouldn't have been able to cast that two rounds ago." Bleh.
RANT OVER.
END OF LINE.
| Matt Stich |
I hate no-cost material components in spells. They're either pointless, or in-jokes, or puns, and they have no game effect except to make casting M spells more difficult or impossible in certain circumstances, and they required creating the MacGuffin Component Pouch Rule (aka "I never spend money on this, I automatically fill it up whenever I'm in town even if this desert town doesn't have any water from melted snow and thus I shouldn't really be able to get the M component for my favorite ice spell, blah blah blah, yet I still can't cast these spells if I lose this not-a-magic-item pouch"), and they're often accidentally overlooked when those circumstances come up, which means you end up with instances of "oh, I shouldn't have been able to cast that two rounds ago." Bleh.
RANT OVER.
END OF LINE.
And now we know how crazy Sean is >.>
| gbonehead Owner - House of Books and Games LLC |
What I want to know is..
WHY in the nine hells does the witch not gain the spell? How the heck are we suppose to say "Fly! fly my pretties Keekekekehahaahah!" when we don't get flying monkies?
How? Easy. Take two levels in Pathfinder Savant. That has become my favorite prestige class for NPCs/monsters :)