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#1 bladedragon03 Sep 15, 2014 12:59:17	What spells require somatic components? I'm a little confused on the difference between a spell that requires M. and a somatic component.    What is the difference between a material component and a somatic component?
#2 mellored Sep 15, 2014 13:09:12	"S" spells require a somatic component, meaning a free hand.   "M" spells require a material component, or a impliment, meaning you can't cast these if you lost your equipment.
#3 Saelorn Sep 15, 2014 13:09:14	A material component is a physical thing: colored sand, the leg of cricket, bat guano, some powdered silver, etc.   If you don't want to deal with that, then you can use a focus, instead: a holy symbol on your shield, a wizard staff, and so on. Effectively, the focus becomes the material component for all of your spells.   The somatic component is what you do with the material component. Reaching into the bag and throwing the sand at your enemy is a type of somatic component. Waving your staff around in the air is a somatic component. Any sort of gesture that you need to do in order to get the spell to work is the somatic component.
#4 bladedragon03 Sep 15, 2014 13:20:42	So a sword and board cleric could cast a V,S,M spell with no problem right? Or would they require the warcaster feat?
(Reply to #4) AaronOfBarbaria	bladedragon03 wrote: