Meta Magic Wizard Feats

[patrick hill]

I’d like some clarification regarding the new meta magic feats wizards have access to. In the description it states you have to add a somatic component to the spell in order to cast it with the meta magic effect like reach. Is this just a way of saying you need to add an extra action to cast the spell? Or does it require a spell that does not already have a somatic component? Would this mean the Wizard needs two hands free to cast the spell? Can you use Quickened Casting to remove the extra somatic component? Thanks in advance.

[ChibiNyan]

You just add an extra action to any spell. A spell can have 2 somatic components, no problem. I guess this would techniclaly provoke AOO twice if anyone could do that.

It still just takes a free hand as normal, but you have to gesture it with for a longer duration. I think Quickened would just remove 1 of the somatic castings? Not sure there.

[brad2411]

It does just add another somatic action which increases the actions to cast it by 1. You only need the one hand free. Quickening can be used with another meta magic ability and quickening allows you to choose which component you do not want to use. So you can make your spell quite with it by removing the verbal component.

One thing that is interesting is it looks like you can't use more then one meta magic feat that adds the same component to the spell. Quicken Spell is no longer a metamagic feat.