Flame blade Whirlwind Attack with Reach Spell (Metamagic)

[Jeff Clem]

Can you use whirlwind with flame blade? If yes, if you add Reach Spell metamagic would you whirlwind out to 25ft/5ft per 2 levels. lol.

Reach Spell (Metamagic)

Your spells go farther than normal.
Benefit: You can alter a spell with a range of touch, close, or medium to increase its range to a higher range category, using the following order: touch, close, medium, and long.
Level Increase: Special. A reach spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s actual level for each increase in range category. For example, a spell with a range of touch increased to long range uses up a spell slot three levels higher.
Spells modified by this feat that require melee touch attacks instead require ranged touch attacks.
Spells that do not have a range of touch, close, or medium do not benefit from this feat.

[Diego Rossi]

PRD wrote:

Flame Blade Range 0 ft.

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Reach Spell (Metamagic) Benefit: You can alter a spell with a range of touch, close, or medium

Enuff said.

[darkwarriorkarg]

By strict hidebound RAW? I don't think so:
Range 0 ft, which is not touch, close, or medium

But as it does pathetic damage and gets nerfed by resist fire : 5 and basically ignored by higher fire resistance, sure... that's a LOT of resources to spend, though. Plus you have to get flame blade AND whirlwind attack AND a metamagic feat.

Edit: Ninja'd

[Pupsocket]

The reach of the Flame Blade is part of the effect, not the range. Reach Spell doesn't change the size of the blade.