<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> Ares has the warcaster feat so he's set for somatic components, but what about material? I assume he'd use his holy symbol, but he still needs to present it, and I believe the rules are a little vague on what constitutes that, unless I missed something.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I got you covered on that one, the war caster feat allows him to put his holy symbol on his shield or at the very least that it should be visible, so no somatic requirements. His holy symbol is also his spell casting focus, which takes care of all components with the exception of expensive named components in the spell. In some of those cases those components also get consumed, he needs to have the expensive components on his body and the ones that get consumed will then disappear.<br/><br/>I intend to solve this by purchasing a component pouch for 25 gp after their first adventure is over. He can store that stuff in there then. He doesn't get spells that require such materials until character level 5 with his level 3 spells though, so for now he's cool. :-)<br/><br/>[edit]<br/>From PHB page 203:<br/>M a t e r i a l (M )<br/>Casting some spells requires particular objects,<br/>specified in parentheses in the component entry.<br/>A character can use a component pouch or a<br/>spellcasting focus (found in chapter 5) in place of<br/>the components specified for a spell. But if a cost is<br/>indicated for a component, a character must have that<br/>specific component before he or she can cast the spell.<br/>If a spell states that a material component is<br/>consumed by the spell, the caster must provide this<br/>component for each casting o f the spell.<br/>A spellcaster must have a hand free to access these<br/>components, but it can be the same hand that he or she<br/>uses to perform somatic components.<br/><br/>I hope that clarifies it better.