Hexes are not spells and cannot be affected by Metamagic rods even if they reproduce a spell

[harmor]

Is this statement correct? A Witch's Hex is Supernatural (Su).

[Urath DM]

That is my understanding of RAW, yes.

[Zakur Opzan]

PFRPGReference document wrote:

allowing the user to apply metamagic effects to spells (but not spell-like abilities)

It refers to spell like abilities, not Supernatural abilities...

This would probably by a GM call and would vary from game to game. Even if it were allowed to be used on the hexes that mimic spells, the fact that a hex is only usable once per day on a given creature would balance it.

[Marthian]

yes.

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Zakur Opzan wrote:

PFRPGReference document wrote:

allowing the user to apply metamagic effects to spells (but not spell-like abilities)

It refers to spell like abilities, not Supernatural abilities...

No, it refers to spells, nothing else.

SLA are specifically called out because they're very close to spells to avoid any confusion. Supernatural abilities are so different from spells and SLA that they probably figured that pointing that out is as useful as pointing out that the metamagic rod doesn't apply to full-attacks or walking backwards.