## Runesmith *You can fashion runes that take the place of material components for your spells.* **Prerequisite:** Craft (rune) 4 ranks **Benefit:** You can make runes that take the place of traditional material components for spells you cast. The runes, often carved into stone talismans or stamped onto small plates of metal, cost 1 gp each and have a Craft (rune) DC of 15. Unlike a material component, a rune does not disappear when you cast a spell; having this feat effectively turns a material component required for a spell into a focus. Your use of runes makes your spells more difficult to counterspell. Other spellcasters who observe you casting a spell take a –4 penalty on checks to determine which spell you're casting, unless they also have the Runesmith feat. Spells with costly material components can be modified with this feat, but requires special materials costing 50 times the material component cost.