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: '''Sorcerers and Bards:'''

: Sorcerers and bards choose spells as they cast them. They can choose when they cast their spells whether to apply their metamagic feats to improve them. As with other spellcasters, the improved spell uses up a higher-level spell slot. Because the sorcerer or bard has not prepared the spell in a metamagic form in advance, he must apply the metamagic feat on the spot. Therefore, such a character must also take more time to cast a metamagic spell (one enhanced by a metamagic feat) than he does to cast a regular spell. If the spell's normal casting time is a standard action, casting a metamagic version is a full-round action for a sorcerer or bard. (This isn't the same as a 1-round casting time.) The only exception is for spells modified by the Quicken Spell metamagic feat, which can be cast as normal using the feat.

: Sorcerers and bards choose spells as they cast them. They can choose when they cast their spells whether to apply their metamagic feats to improve them. As with other spellcasters, the improved spell uses up a higher-level spell slot. Because the sorcerer or bard has not prepared the spell in a metamagic form in advance, he must apply the metamagic feat on the spot.

~~: For a spell with a longer casting time, it takes an extra full-round action to cast the spell~~.

: '''Spontaneous Casting and Metamagic Feats:'''

: A cleric spontaneously casting a cure or inflict spell, or a druid spontaneously casting a summon nature's ally spell, can cast a metamagic version of it instead. Extra time is also required in this case. Casting a standard action metamagic spell spontaneously is a full-round action, and a spell with a longer casting time takes an extra full-round action to cast. The only exception is for spells modified by the Quicken Spell feat, which can be cast as a swift action.

: A cleric spontaneously casting a cure or inflict spell, or a druid spontaneously casting a summon nature's ally spell, can cast a metamagic version of it instead.

: '''Effects of Metamagic Feats on a Spell:'''

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: '''Magic Items and Metamagic Spells:'''

: Spell effects cannot be enchanted into items with metamagic feats added to them. Some pre-built items that provide the effects of metamagic feats do exist, however, such as metamagic rods.

: '''Metamagic Rods:'''

: Metamagic rods allow a caster to apply the rod's specific metamagic feat to a spell as they cast it, without increasing the spell's spell level (and/or spell slot) when it is cast. Instead, using a metamagic rod increases the casting time of the spell. Metamagic rods can only be applied to spells which have a casting time of 1 [[standard action]], and by doing so, the spell's casting time is increased to a [[full-round action]]. The exception to this is a Metamagic Rod of Quicken, which changes the spell's standard action casting time down to a '''[[move action]]'''. Note that this is a deviation from the [[Quicken Spell (Feat)|Quicken Spell]] feat, which lowers a spell's casting time to a swift action; the metamagic rod is not as good as the feat.

===Cast a Quickened Spell===

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 : '''Sorcerers and Bards:'''
-: Sorcerers and bards choose spells as they cast them. They can choose when they cast their spells whether to apply their metamagic feats to improve them. As with other spellcasters, the improved spell uses up a higher-level spell slot. Because the sorcerer or bard has not prepared the spell in a metamagic form in advance, he must apply the metamagic feat on the spot. Therefore, such a character must also take more time to cast a metamagic spell (one enhanced by a metamagic feat) than he does to cast a regular spell. If the spell's normal casting time is a standard action, casting a metamagic version is a full-round action for a sorcerer or bard. (This isn't the same as a 1-round casting time.) The only exception is for spells modified by the Quicken Spell metamagic feat, which can be cast as normal using the feat.
+: Sorcerers and bards choose spells as they cast them. They can choose when they cast their spells whether to apply their metamagic feats to improve them. As with other spellcasters, the improved spell uses up a higher-level spell slot. Because the sorcerer or bard has not prepared the spell in a metamagic form in advance, he must apply the metamagic feat on the spot.
-: For a spell with a longer casting time, it takes an extra full-round action to cast the spell.
 : '''Spontaneous Casting and Metamagic Feats:'''
-: A cleric spontaneously casting a cure or inflict spell, or a druid spontaneously casting a summon nature's ally spell, can cast a metamagic version of it instead. Extra time is also required in this case. Casting a standard action metamagic spell spontaneously is a full-round action, and a spell with a longer casting time takes an extra full-round action to cast. The only exception is for spells modified by the Quicken Spell feat, which can be cast as a swift action.
+: A cleric spontaneously casting a cure or inflict spell, or a druid spontaneously casting a summon nature's ally spell, can cast a metamagic version of it instead.
 : '''Effects of Metamagic Feats on a Spell:'''
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 : '''Magic Items and Metamagic Spells:'''
 : Spell effects cannot be enchanted into items with metamagic feats added to them.  Some pre-built items that provide the effects of metamagic feats do exist, however, such as metamagic rods.
+: '''Metamagic Rods:'''
+: Metamagic rods allow a caster to apply the rod's specific metamagic feat to a spell as they cast it, without increasing the spell's spell level (and/or spell slot) when it is cast.  Instead, using a metamagic rod increases the casting time of the spell.  Metamagic rods can only be applied to spells which have a casting time of 1 [[standard action]], and by doing so, the spell's casting time is increased to a [[full-round action]].  The exception to this is a Metamagic Rod of Quicken, which changes the spell's standard action casting time down to a '''[[move action]]'''.  Note that this is a deviation from the [[Quicken Spell (Feat)|Quicken Spell]] feat, which lowers a spell's casting time to a swift action; the metamagic rod is not as good as the feat.
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