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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3237582" data-attributes="member: 1656">But it's the reason given for the increased casting time.As with other spellcasters, the improved spell uses up a higher-level spell slot. But because the sorcerer or bard has not prepared the spell in a metamagic form in advance, he must apply the metamagic feat on the spot. Therefore, such a character must also take more time to cast a metamagic spell (one enhanced by a metamagic feat) than he does to cast a regular spell. It's not that a/ sorcerers and bards take more time to cast a metamagic spell, and b/ sorcerers and bards apply metamagic feats on the spot to spells not prepared in a metamagic form in advance.It's that sorcerers and bards take more time to cast a metamagic spell because they apply metamagic feats on the spot to spells not prepared in a metamagic form in advance.One causes the other.  And because a sorcerer using a rod still takes extra time, we know that the rod doesn't let you get around the fact that applying metamagic feats on the spot to spells not prepared in a metamagic form in advance causes an increase in casting time.If the ruling was that applying a metamagic feat on the fly to a spell not prepared in advance caused an increased casting time, the FAQ ruling would be consistent; a sorcerer using the rod to apply Empower to Magic Missile is applying it to a spell not prepared in advance, while a wizard using the rod to apply Empower to Magic Missile is applying it to a spell prepared in advance.But that's not the rule, and the wizard is using the rod to apply Empower to a spell not prepared in a metamagic form in advance.  So he should suffer the increased casting time, just like the sorcerer.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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