The spell has a material component as part of casting the spell, which means its required, if the component has no cost you may instead use a spell casting focus, otherwise you need the component. Identify has a 100 gp pearl and an owl feather, you can use a focus to forgo the feather but not the pearl. That means you need holy water (valued at 25 gp) or silver and iron powder (which are ingredients for holy water that the player can produce, provided they are able to) and the spell consumes it on casting so the 25 gp worth of material is used on each casting otherwise the spell that requires the material component cannot be cast.
The spell "Protection from Good and Evil" does not state a material cost, therefore there /is/ no cost and a component pouch or spell casting focus substitutes it. Doesn't matter how Protection from Good and Evil is being cast - magic item, spell slot, maguffin.
The spell has a material component as part of casting the spell, which means its required, if the component has no cost you may instead use a spell casting focus, otherwise you need the component. Identify has a 100 gp pearl and an owl feather, you can use a focus to forgo the feather but not the pearl. That means you need holy water (valued at 25 gp) or silver and iron powder (which are ingredients for holy water that the player can produce, provided they are able to) and the spell consumes it on casting so the 25 gp worth of material is used on each casting otherwise the spell that requires the material component cannot be cast.
The spell "Protection from Good and Evil" does not state a material cost, therefore there /is/ no cost and a component pouch or spell casting focus substitutes it. Doesn't matter how Protection from Good and Evil is being cast - magic item, spell slot, maguffin.
That is incorrect. Protection from Good and Evil consumes its material component, so a component pouch or focus cannot satisfy that component.
And it does matter how it’s being cast. Ophidimancer and I have been saying over and over how that works: spells cast from magic items require no components unless the item description says otherwise.
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The spell "Protection from Good and Evil" does not state a material cost, therefore there /is/ no cost and a component pouch or spell casting focus substitutes it. Doesn't matter how Protection from Good and Evil is being cast - magic item, spell slot, maguffin.
That is incorrect. Protection from Good and Evil consumes its material component, so a component pouch or focus cannot satisfy that component.
And it does matter how it’s being cast. Ophidimancer and I have been saying over and over how that works: spells cast from magic items require no components unless the item description says otherwise.