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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2832204" data-attributes="member: 2011">No, you would have a different result since he cannot Spontaneously Quicken his spells. He has to prepare ahead of time, hence, is limited. If he prepares the wrong spells to Quicken, he's hosed. Additionally, the Wizard can already do this in the game with one feat and the Sorcerer can already do this in the game with two feats.Also, if the Wizard Quickens half of his prepared spells, it means that he has used up slots that could have had more utility, situation depending, even if he does not need a Quickened spell all day.Again, it is not Quicken which is the problem. It is the flexibility of Spontaneous Quicken. If you can Spontaneously Quicken and need half of your high level slots Quickened, you can do it on the fly. If you need none of them Quickened, you can do that too. If you need all of them Quickened, you can do that too.This is a totally different and much more flexible and potent set of functionality than selecting some spells to Quicken at the beginning of the day.Note: There have been massive debates on the metamagic rods in the past. However, the one aspect of them that nobody seems to argue about is that the Quickened Metamagic rods are extremely expensive:35,000 gp (lesser), 75,500 gp (normal), 170,000 gp (greater)Spontaneously Quickening is a very potent ability. The Variant Sorcerer effectively gets the equivalent of lesser (and eventually normal) Quickened Metamagic Rod (of the appropriate power) with the exception that the level of the spell does get increased (a Con), he can typically do this more times per day than the Rod (a Pro), and he can do it as an ability, so he cannot lose the ability like he could lose the Rod (another Pro).This is still like trading the familiar and a single feat (Quicken Spell) for 10s of thousands of GP worth of ability. It's practically like giving the very potent Quicken Metamagic Rod to the Variant Sorcerer. Sorry, but that's both unfair to other PCs and broken. The Quicken Spell feat was not intended to be that powerful.</blockquote>

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