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"Spell Critical (Su): At 10th level, whenever an
eldritch knight successfully confirms a critical
hit, he can cast a spell as a swift action. The spell
must include the target of the attack as one of its targets
or in its area of effect. Casting this spell does not provoke
an attack of opportunity. The caster must still meet all
of the spell’s components and must roll for arcane spell
failure if necessary."
Two questions:
1. Does the spell in question need to have a normal casting time of one standard action? One full round or less? Or can a 10-minute spell be cast as a swift action? As much fun as critting an enemy and casting Geas on him would be, I somehow doubt that was the intention.
2. Can a sorcerer add metamagic to the spell? If the answer is no because the spell must be a standard action, can an arcane-bloodline sorcerer add metamagic using his metamagic adept class feature? How about a universalist wizard?
"Spell Critical (Su): At 10th level, whenever an
eldritch knight successfully confirms a critical
hit, he can cast a spell as a swift action. The spell
must include the target of the attack as one of its targets
or in its area of effect. Casting this spell does not provoke
an attack of opportunity. The caster must still meet all
of the spell’s components and must roll for arcane spell
failure if necessary."
Two questions:1. Does the spell in question need to have a normal casting time of one standard action? One full round or less? Or can a 10-minute spell be cast as a swift action? As much fun as critting an enemy and casting Geas on him would be, I somehow doubt that was the intention.
That is a good question. My opinion would be to treat it as the Quicken Spell(Metamagic) feat was being applied. In which case full-round action and less spells. Until an official answer is said that would be a logical answer I think.
2. Can a sorcerer add metamagic to the spell? If the answer is no because the spell must be a standard action, can an arcane-bloodline sorcerer add metamagic using his metamagic adept class feature? How about a universalist wizard?
So again assuming that this acts like Quicken Spell(Metamagic) feat then yes to all the questions as you can add more than one metamagic feat to a spell. So a sorcerer with or without the Arcane-bloodline could add a metamagic feat to the Spell Critical and same for the wizard.
Of course the above all assumes that the ability works rules wise to Quicken Spell(Metamagic) feat.
