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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 3233509" data-attributes="member: 2011">With all of the capability in Complete Arcane, Complete Mage, etc., this is hardly broken.If Spontaneous Metamagic were broken, then Sorcerers by default would be broken. Spontaneous Metamagic 3 times per day for Wizards for X amount of gold is not broken if Spontaneous Metamagic 50 times per day for Sorcerers for free is not broken.Btw, I agree with you that by a strict literal RAW reading, the metamagic rods should be during preparation time for preparation casters.However, I also view this as a case where WotC meant to state one thing and was unclear, and accidentally stated something else. Hence, the FAQ is a clarification in this case.A better poll might be: "When you first read about metamagic rods (possibly in Tome and Blood) and before you read discussions on the topic here on the board or elsewhere, did you think they were supposed to be used at casting time or preparation time?"I suspect that possibly even Hyp or you or both misread the strict literal RAW the very first time as "at casting time" until a closer look was taken. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>