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☄️5e - Spell Components☄️

A spell’s components are physical requirements the spellcaster must meet to cast the spell. Each spell’s description indicates whether it requires ☄️Verbal (V), ☄️Somatic (S), or ☄️Material (M) components. If the spellcaster can’t provide one or more of a spell’s components, the spellcaster can’t cast the spell.

☄️Verbal (V)

A Verbal component is the chanting of esoteric words that sound like nonsense to the uninitiated. The words must be uttered in a normal speaking voice and articulated clearly. The words define a caster’s intent in the process of casting, the particular combination of sounds, with specific pitch and resonance, sets the threads of magic in motion. Thus, a creature who is gagged or in an area of magical silence can’t cast a spell with a Verbal component.

Creating Verbal Components

If you’d like to say a spell’s Verbal component, you may make up the words. However you make them, the goal is to create something that’s easy to say at the table. Consider this method: take the name of the spell, keep only one instance of each of its letters, and rearrange the remaining letters into words. For example, remove the second l from Fireball and rearrange the remaining letters to create Ber Fila or Fel Bira.

☄️Somatic (S)

A Somatic component is a forceful gesticulation or an intricate set of gestures. A spellcaster must use at least one of their hands to perform these movements.

☄️Material (M)

A Material component is a particular material used in a spell’s casting, as specified in parentheses in the Components entry. These materials aren’t consumed by the spell unless the spell’s description states otherwise. The spellcaster must have a hand free to access them, but it can be the same hand used to perform ☄️Somatic components, if any.

If a spell doesn’t consume its materials and doesn’t specify a cost for them, a spellcaster can use a 🎩Component Pouch instead of providing the materials specified in the spell, or the spellcaster can substitute a 🎩Spellcasting Focus if the caster has a feature that allows that substitution. To use a 🎩Component Pouch, you must have a hand free to reach into it, and to use a 🎩Spellcasting Focus, you must hold it unless its description says otherwise.

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