Currently in the book it reads:
"Special: You can apply the effects of this feat to a spell cast spontaneously, so long as it has a casting time that is not more than 1 full-round action, without increasing the spell's casting time."
That doesn't make sense to me at all. Does it perhaps mean to say:
"Special: You can apply the effects of this feat to a spell cast spontaneously, so long as it has a casting time that is not more than 1 full-round action, without increasing the spell's level."
And if it does, this is very good news for Clerics and Druids, Neutral Clerics being able to Inflict as a swift, then attack as a standard, or Druids being able to call nature's ally then do it again, creating a Zoo in one round.
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It means casting time. If you apply metamagic feats to a spell that is spontaneously cast, it normally increases the spell's casting time to a full round action.
This clarification is just to imply that Quicken Spell doesn't have that increase, otherwise the feat would be pointless.
Your God of Knowledge,
Nethys
Currently in the book it reads:
"Special: You can apply the effects of this feat to a spell cast spontaneously, so long as it has a casting time that is not more than 1 full-round action, without increasing the spell's casting time."
That doesn't make sense to me at all. Does it perhaps mean to say:
"Special: You can apply the effects of this feat to a spell cast spontaneously, so long as it has a casting time that is not more than 1 full-round action, without increasing the spell's level."
And if it does, this is very good news for Clerics and Druids, Neutral Clerics being able to Inflict as a swift, then attack as a standard, or Druids being able to call nature's ally then do it again, creating a Zoo in one round.
No it shouldn't.
The problem is any spell cast spontaneously with a metamagic feat on it takes a full round action. This becomes an issue in the case of quicken spell since the effect of the metamagic feat is to lower the casting time to a swift action. So in order to allow classes like the bard and sorcerer to use quicken spell they add the special exemption for quicken spell.
EDIT: Wow, Ninja'd three times, at least it's by important people!
Ah I see. I forgot about that, its been too long since I had a Sorceror play in any of my games.
I have another question related to this.
If a Sorcerer wants to apply multiple Metamagic Feats to a single spell, what happens to Quicken Spell ?
Let's say that a Wizard wants to cast an Empowered Quickened Magic Missile; he only has to memorize it as a 7th-level spell in order to cast it as a swift spell (an Empowered Swift spell).
In 3.x, a Sorcerer could not use Quicken Spell, so obviously the answer was already done.
What is the case in Pathfinder ? Can a Sorcerer cast an Empowered Quickened Magic Missile as a swift action (where Quicken Spell takes dominance over the chain of Metamagic Feats)? Or rather, since Quicken Spell says that it cannot be applied to a spell with a casting time higher than 1 standard action, the Sorcerer cannot do it (an Empowered Magic Missile cast by a Sorcerer becomes a 'full-round action casting time' spell, and as such, it doesn't fall into the range of Quickening Spells anymore)?
I'm inclined to think the latter is correct, but is it true ?
Or rather, since Quicken Spell says that it cannot be applied to a spell with a casting time higher than 1 standard action, the Sorcerer cannot do it (an Empowered Magic Missile cast by a Sorcerer becomes a 'full-round action casting time' spell, and as such, it doesn't fall into the range of Quickening Spells anymore)?
I'm inclined to think the latter is correct, but is it true ?
Actually the feat reads "A spell whose casting time is more than 1 full-round action cannot be quickened." so I am going with yes you can have an 'Empowered Quickened Magic Missile'.