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Subject: Re: Re: Limiting Magic (A solution?)
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 01:37:12 EST
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> >I think that perhaps extending the material components idea a bit would be
> >better.
> 
> This is, I think, the very good way to solve to the problem. And together
> with requirement of heigh-level spell, it propably is the best.
> 
> In the British magazine White Dwarf issues 58-63 (Nov-84 to Mar-85) was a
> series of articles called 'Eyes of Newt and Wings of Bat' explaining how to
> make all those goodies of magic items listed in DMG. Not only were strange
> and expensive ingriedients required, but also several 'Enchant an Item',
> 'Permanency' and 'Limited Wish' spells for _each_ item. Due to this rules it
> is not impossible to manufacture magic items, but they will surely keep
> low-level characters from it.

Requiring a lot of material components for making magic items makes
sense, but I think it is a different story with magical components for
routine spells. I have found that if you make players keep track of
every single rat hair and bit of dragon blood they need for a spell,
things get very cumbersome when a lot of spells get cast. This case is
different from magical items, because people will always have to cast
spells, whereas they don't have to make gross magical items. We solved
the problem by just ignoring material components of spells... Has
anybody else had different solutions to these problems?

	Wayne