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* A number of spells in many versions of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' (AD&D 1e, AD&D 2e, and D&D 3.x) require use of material components. For standard spells, like ''fireball'', this requires something trivial and commonplace (like bat guano and sulfur rolled into a ball) that one can BS away by having a spell pouch on them. For more powerful spells, like Raise Dead, you're expected to pay cash money to use them (in the form of a pile of diamonds worth 5000 gp).
** Some are even more unpleasant. The components for ''spider climb'' are a drop of bitumen and a live spider; you have to ''eat'' the spider.
** Still, if that sort of thing isn't easy enough for you, there are feats like Eschew Materials (which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], for material components that don't mention a money cost), prestige classes like the runecaster, which allow you to replace expended material components with permanent rune-carved objects (one wonders what the replacement for ''fireball'' is...a little stone ball with "bat poo and sulfur" carved in Draconic?), and others.
*** Why not "Burn!" or "[[Girl Genius|Everything goes boom!]]" on Ignan?
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