Apparently, you've been doing spell components and encumbrance wrong.

[littha]

We play gritty, by the book, campaigns using weight, encumberance and strict rulings on everything...

The strict ruling on spell compenents? like stated above, buy a compenent pouch and whatever you need for expensive spells in advance. Then get used to "Well I, the wizard, wander into the local spellcaster's shop or alchemist's place and restock my component pouch" and hands over like 5 silver or pays for the onyx's for animate dead or whatever.

Spell component pouches are endless by the book, you never need to restock them. Buying Onyx makes sense though.

[Halinn]

We play gritty, by the book, campaigns using weight, encumberance and strict rulings on everything...

The strict ruling on spell compenents? like stated above, buy a compenent pouch and whatever you need for expensive spells in advance. Then get used to "Well I, the wizard, wander into the local spellcaster's shop or alchemist's place and restock my component pouch" and hands over like 5 silver or pays for the onyx's for animate dead or whatever.

Spell component pouches are endless by the book, you never need to restock them. Buying Onyx makes sense though.

Screw chickens, drown the world in butter.

[snakeman830]

Well, you would also have Summon Swarm at will as a free action.  Spiders only, though.

[Nemo]

One thing that guy got right though is the fact that tactically and properly played monsters can be pretty dangerous to not optimizing party.

[Halinn]

One thing that guy got right though is the fact that tactically and properly played monsters can be pretty dangerous to not optimizing party.

And that if one is silly enough not to get a bag of holding, encumbrance can be bothersome on low-strength characters.

[phaedrusxy]

One thing that guy got right though is the fact that tactically and properly played monsters can be pretty dangerous to not optimizing party.

And that if one is silly enough not to get a bag of holding, encumbrance can be bothersome on low-strength characters.

It was 1st level.

[NiteCyper]

I'd make a rulings comment if not for the fact that it is stated that it's 3e. A place where I have no jurisdiction. I'm just a 3.5e-boy. No, now... now I just hunch in dread, hold my hand to my face, and grimace at the account of what it was like in...the before-time. Like what I recently read about the ice-pick lobotomy.

BTW, I DM by the book and I have fond memories. My players know that I don't fudge anything, making victory all the more sweeter.

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That one time when the ranger, in a solo session, chased after the first mate. I ruled that he wouldn't catch up by speed; it'd just be a test of endurance. He had to stop and shoot. One shot. I think that I was also taken aback because he didn't even know the guy and decided to attack him.