Spell component/herb suggestions

[ayergo]

I want to put in more of these.

So far we have:

Spell components:
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Fire Rat Tails
Vampire bat Fangs
Bat Guano!

Herbs:
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Fire Fern Fronds
Magpie Mushrooms

Suggestions for others?

I'll start:

Mandrake root. Can only be picked at midnight!

[Vendrin]

Spell Components:
Piece of Fur

[Zelknolf]

Various Kinds of Spell Components:
Minerals:
Sulfur (for fireball)
Clear crystals (for read magic)
Soot and rock salt (for comprehend languages)
Fine grain sand (for sleep)
Mercury (for Tenser's Floating Disk... 'cept not Tenser... 'cuz Tenser's Greyhawk.)
Colored Sands (for color spray)
Powdered Iron (for enlarge/reduce person)

Animal Parts:
Eagle Eyes (for scrying)
Live Spiders (for spider climb)
Fireflies (for light)
Pork Rinds (for grease)
Horse Hair (for mount)
Owl Feathers (for identify)
Pearls (for identify)
Crickets (for sleep)
Grasshopper legs (for jump)

Plants:
Phosphorescent moss (for light)
Rose pedals (for sleep)

Misc:
Honey Comb (for magic mouth)
Wax (for ghost sound)
Sweat (for touch of fatigue)
Grave Dirt (for detect undead)

Things Fetched from Artisans:
A tiny cloak (for resistance)
A tiny bell (for alarm)
A tiny bag (for summon monster)
A tiny archery target (for true strike)
Copper Wire (for message, sending)
Wool (for daze)
Powdered Silver (for almost every divine abjuration)
Scraps of cured leather (for mage armor)
String and scrap wood (for unseen servant)
Scraps of silk (for magic aura)
Scrap of fleece (for silent image)

(I can dig up more -- I figure the cantrips/1st level components would be in the most demand, though.)

[Zelknolf]

Various Kinds of Herbs

Belladonna/Deadly Nightshade (poison and mythical cure for lycanthropy)
Wolfsbane (also poison, also a mythical cure for lycanthropy)
Devil's Cap Mushroom (famous mushroom - very poisonous)
Bloodroot (anesthetic and morphene-like trips)
Comfrey (speeds healing; easy to develop toxic levels, usually combined with garlic)
Mugwort/Common Wormwood (contraceptive)
Artichoke (for cardiovascular stuffs)
Calendula (anti-inflamitory)
Echinacea (cure for the common cold)
Elderberries (for the flu)
All Saint's Wort (FR version of St. John's Wort -- used to treat fuckin everything)
Stinging Nettle (also an anti-inflamatory)
Valerian (sleep aid)



Ginseng (this one's fishy, imho -- FR canon says they grow in the west, but the RL referant of it was originally grown in the far east, used as an aphrodisiac)
Ginkgo (also fishy, imho -- FR lists it as existing, but the RL referant died out in prehistory. The FR stuffs say they stimulate thought and give energy.)

/*edited 'cuz I can't fuggin spell.*/

[ElCadaver]

Wolf nipples (as well as pelts)

can be made into - Hot Wolf Nipple Chips

Effect (Lionheart (3))
Negative - Will spawn a pack of angry wolves if you go into wilderness areas the same day you eat them.

My favorite part of 'Clouds of Xeen'

[ayergo]

Ah Xeen, great series that.

I do like some of these. Harvesting stuff off animals is going to require a vast system setup, probably not something for the near future.

Anything with comedic value is a plus, keep the ideas rolling.