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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TanisFrey" data-source="post: 5421534" data-attributes="member: 26948">You can modify spell completion items with metamagic when you are creating it.  Quicken does affect an spell completion to a swift action.  Applying a metamagic feat to any spell completion item will raise both the caster level and the spell level of an Item.Quicken cannot be applied to a potion and are limited to 0th level spells for wands.  Why?  Quicken adds 4 spell level to the effective level.  Potions can only hold (normal, that is) 3rd level spells and Wands can only hold 4th level spells.Lets compare a Wand of Ray of Frost vs a Wand of Quicken Ray of Frost build cost for 3.5.Wand of Ray of Frost            = 1 x (1/2) x 750 = 375 gp      plus 15 xpWand of Quicken Ray of Frost = 7 x 4 x 750 gp  = 21,000 gp plus 840 xpThe Wand of Quicken Ray of Frost is 56 times the gp cost of its non quicken relative.If a PC really wants to invest that much more gold to gain a swift action that does 1d3 frost damage with a touch attack, why not allow that?  An extra 1d3 damage a round is not going to break the game.Just remember to enforce the increase in SPELL LEVEL and CASTER LEVEL.</blockquote>