Focuses, components, storage, silliness

[Sutremaine]

These questions are by RAW where and if it applies, and by opinion where and if it doesn't.

1. Where do dragons keep their focuses and components? They can't all have Eschew Materials and use only spells that have negligible material costs.
2. When PCs cast a spell, where exactly must the focuses and components be? Touching the caster (for components), within sight or on the caster's person (for focuses), something else...
3. Can the focus for Greater Forceknife (spell chosen due to specific location of focus) be considered available and usable for the spell if it's been implanted into the caster's palm?
4. Can the same be said for swallowed components?
5. How much attention is paid to negligible-cost items in your games?
6. Drawing spell components is a free action. Drawing a potion is a move action. If I draw a potion of Bull's Strength for use in the Transformation spell and then change my mind, deciding instead to drink the potion, is the drawing of the potion now considered a free action or a move action?
7. Would you allow a spell component pouch's Invisible Leather TARDIS functionality to extend to other items?

[Starbuck_II]

These questions are by RAW where and if it applies, and by opinion where and if it doesn't.

1. Where do dragons keep their focuses and components? They can't all have Eschew Materials and use only spells that have negligible material costs.

Spell component pouches. What? Dragons don't have them?

2. When PCs cast a spell, where exactly must the focuses and components be? Touching the caster (for components), within sight or on the caster's person (for focuses), something else...

Just in your hands basically or somehow visible.

4. Can the same be said for swallowed components?

Spiderclimb?

5. How much attention is paid to negligible-cost items in your games?

None as long as you have the spell pouch.

6. Drawing spell components is a free action. Drawing a potion is a move action. If I draw a potion of Bull's Strength for use in the Transformation spell and then change my mind, deciding instead to drink the potion, is the drawing of the potion now considered a free action or a move action?

Drawing spell is free in conjunction with casting a spell:
So you just wasted a standard action and a spell slot to drink as free action... that is inefficient.

[goat]

Well, I assume Dragons have quite fine control over their "finger" claws, and could indeed use a spell component pouch.

I mean, if I was as rich as a dragon, I might well hire some super-tailors to make me a fine suit of clothes, or at least a belt I could attach my spell components to.

Or you could just have a rivet attached to an outer scale, and hang it off that...

[Fax Celestis]

These questions are by RAW where and if it applies, and by opinion where and if it doesn't.

1. Where do dragons keep their focuses and components? They can't all have Eschew Materials and use only spells that have negligible material costs.

Dragons, like all other creatures, are required to have material components. Usually they have the wealth and means to acquire even rare materials without issue.

2. When PCs cast a spell, where exactly must the focuses and components be? Touching the caster (for components), within sight or on the caster's person (for focuses), something else...

Focuses and components must be within the caster's hands.

3. Can the focus for Greater Forceknife (spell chosen due to specific location of focus) be considered available and usable for the spell if it's been implanted into the caster's palm?

Technically, no. The caster must be holding the focus. Having it in your palm isn't holding it. However, it's not unreasonable.

4. Can the same be said for swallowed components?

No.

5. How much attention is paid to negligible-cost items in your games?

None. It's too much to worry about, really.

6. Drawing spell components is a free action. Drawing a potion is a move action. If I draw a potion of Bull's Strength for use in the Transformation spell and then change my mind, deciding instead to drink the potion, is the drawing of the potion now considered a free action or a move action?

Free action. The action of drinking the potion is a move action, not simply drawing it.

7. Would you allow a spell component pouch's Invisible Leather TARDIS functionality to extend to other items?

For ease of use, probably yes. Only in a specific kind of game--the kind I don't usually run--would I care about such minor things as food spoilage. Besides, everlasting rations.