Nobody cares about SPELL COMPONENTS

About this episode

The episode discusses the often-overlooked importance of spell components in magic systems.

Every spell can have three components. They need to have something VERBAL. They need to be SOMATIC by waving your hands in a fancy way. They also need something forgotten about a lot and that is spell components! Nobody things of using those! So why do we even have them?

Topics covered

• spell components
• Dungeons and Dragons
• role-playing games
• magic
• game mechanics

Keywords

• spell components
• verbal components
• somatic components
• D&D
• magic systems

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