Expensive Material Components [Archive] - Wizards Community

Expensive Material Components [Archive] - Wizards Community

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bronzmonkee
08-14-06, 07:24 PM If a character requires an expensive material component (such as diamond dust) for a spell, how is this tracked in the Xen'Drink campaign?

- Character has to buy material components before the game starts with their equipment value? Does the character need to spend x5 for the component?
- Character has to buy material components after the game starts with cash on hand?
- Player keeps track of material component cost during game and then subtracts from their character's future EV?
- Material components aren't tracked

Are characters assumed to have access to spell components for spells they know? Is this access unrestricted / limited / locked?
bertman4
08-14-06, 08:50 PM Not sure about XE but when I played MoH I had the same exact question. I was wonderig if my Artificer had to carry around expensive material components for some of his infusions, such as the first level infusion Lesser Armor Enhancement which requiers a 10gp ointment. The "unofficial" answer was that I did need to specifically put that component down on my sheet AND that it would be considered a consumable at 5x cost (but would reset betweeen adventures).

All this is unofficial since I still don't see anything about this in the MoH Campaign Standard.

Bertman
Skerrit
08-14-06, 09:49 PM I don't have an official answer for XE yet, but I do not the MoH fastplay wizard had two 100-gp pearls on his sheet so he could cast identify (each listed for the normal 100-gp cost I believe). Note that while I updated them to 10th-level, I carried that over from the 7th-level version done by SRM.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
bronzmonkee 08-14-06, 07:24 PM	If a character requires an expensive material component (such as diamond dust) for a spell, how is this tracked in the Xen'Drink campaign? - Character has to buy material components before the game starts with their equipment value? Does the character need to spend x5 for the component? - Character has to buy material components after the game starts with cash on hand? - Player keeps track of material component cost during game and then subtracts from their character's future EV? - Material components aren't tracked Are characters assumed to have access to spell components for spells they know? Is this access unrestricted / limited / locked?
bertman4 08-14-06, 08:50 PM	Not sure about XE but when I played MoH I had the same exact question. I was wonderig if my Artificer had to carry around expensive material components for some of his infusions, such as the first level infusion Lesser Armor Enhancement which requiers a 10gp ointment. The "unofficial" answer was that I did need to specifically put that component down on my sheet AND that it would be considered a consumable at 5x cost (but would reset betweeen adventures). All this is unofficial since I still don't see anything about this in the MoH Campaign Standard. Bertman
Skerrit 08-14-06, 09:49 PM	I don't have an official answer for XE yet, but I do not the MoH fastplay wizard had two 100-gp pearls on his sheet so he could cast identify (each listed for the normal 100-gp cost I believe). Note that while I updated them to 10th-level, I carried that over from the 7th-level version done by SRM.