Metamagic Apparatuses

Metamagic in Spheres of Power does not work in quite the same way as it does with Pathfinder’s original casting system. In the traditional system, the power of spell levels grows exponentially, with each level capable of accomplishing significantly greater tasks.

In Spheres of Power, the growth of talents is more linear, with the primary cost for using metamagic feats being a little extra time spent casting and paying more spell points. This is usually quite affordable for higher-level characters, who can use metamagic repeatedly while still having spell points to spare for their other talents.

In short, making metamagic items for Spheres of Power required a second look at the reasons for pricing items and whether or not it was appropriate to keep the same costs. Ultimately, I decided that keeping the original costs would have discouraged getting these as items in favor of grabbing the best metamagic through feats in the mid-to-high level range, so metamagic in general has a flatter and more predictable cost. If you are concerned about the effect this may have on your games, consider either restricting crafting by requiring players to have the metamagic feat or using the original prices for metamagic rods of each level.

Characters who can craft apparatuses can upgrade a metamagic apparatus to a higher level. The weaker apparatus is the item being upgraded, so the improved apparatus retains the same appearance and materials as the weaker apparatus. This functions like crafting a normal apparatus, but the lower-level apparatus counts as crafting materials equal to its own crafting Cost. (For example, a lesser aligned metamagic apparatus counts as 5,000 gp of crafting materials, which is half of what’s needed for the normal version, or one-quarter of what’s needed for the greater version.) Using a metamagic apparatus as a crafting ingredient reduces the time needed to craft by its full price. (Thus, that same lesser aligned metamagic apparatus reduces the crafting time by 10,000 gp’s worth, or 10 days when crafting at normal speed.)

A metamagic apparatus in the middle of being upgraded can still be used as its weaker version until you have finished crafting it into its improved form.

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

When you craft this apparatus (or gain it as a feat), choose a non-neutral component of your alignment. When you prepare (if you are a prepared caster) or cast (if you are a spontaneous caster or spherecaster) an aligned spell/talent, choose weal or woe. If you choose weal all variable, numeric effects of the spell are decreased by half (including bonuses to those dice rolls) for creatures of that alignment and increased by half (including bonuses to those dice rolls) for creatures of the opposite alignment.

If the talent does not have variable, numeric effects, it instead has its saving throw DC and effective caster level decreased by 2 against creatures of the selected alignment and increased by 2 against creatures of the opposite alignment. If you choose woe, these effects are reversed.

The spells effects do not change for creatures of neither alignment. Talents that neither do damage nor have a saving throw cannot be affected by Align Spell. If this apparatus is found as treasure, the GM determines which alignment (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) it is attuned to.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Align Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

An aquatic talent functions normally underwater and requires no magic skill check to cast, even if it has the fire descriptor. In addition, the talent can be cast from the surface into water and still be effective.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Aquatic Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

Whenever a bouncing talent targeting a single creature has no effect on its intended target (whether due to spell resistance or a successful saving throw) you may, as a swift action, redirect it to target another eligible creature within range. The redirected talent behaves in all ways as if its new target were the original target for the talent. Talents that affect a target in any way (including a lesser effect from a successful saving throw) may not be redirected in this manner.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Bouncing Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 0 sp

You can alter talents that grant a creature a movement type it does not normally have to increase the speed for that movement type by 10 feet.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Brisk Spell; Cost 1,250 gp (lesser), 2,500 gp (normal), 5,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater); Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

The acid or fire effects of the affected talent adhere to the affected creature(s), causing more damage the next round. When a creature takes acid or fire damage from the affected talent, that creature takes damage equal to the talent’s caster level at the start of its next turn. The damage is acid or fire, as determined by the spell’s descriptor. If a burning talent has both the fire and acid descriptor, the caster chooses what kind of damage is dealt by the burning talent effect.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Burning Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot None; Price 15,000 gp (lesser), 30,000 gp (normal), 60,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 3 sp

You allow a magic effect to function even without line of effect, transporting its effects through barriers that would otherwise impede it. You must still possess line of sight for effects that require it, and the target must still be within the effect’s range.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Burrowing Spell; Cost 7,500 gp (lesser), 15,000 gp (normal), 30,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 20,000 gp (normal)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

Only talents that target only you and have a duration of at least 1 round can be cast as cascade spells; you must either spend spell points to let each cascading effect persist without concentration or have an effect that allows them to linger without concentration. You can prepare multiple talents as a single cascade talent (treat this as if you were casting multiple sphere effects with the same action), as long as all talents are CL 7th or lower, and the total caster level does not exceed CL 9th. The duration of all the cascade talents is equal to the shortest duration for all the talents. A cascade talent has a casting time equal to the longest casting time of all the talents in the cascade. Unlike most metamagic apparatuses, this apparatus only comes in one level.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Cascade Spell; Cost 10,000 gp (normal)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

This can only be applied to mind-affecting effects. A coaxing talent affects mindless oozes and vermin as if they were not mindless, but has no effect on other creature types. This does not provide the effects of the Mind sphere’s Expanded Charm talent.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Coaxing Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

With sonic damage comes a concussive wave of energy that rattles creatures affected by the talent. A concussive talent causes creatures that take damage from a talent that has the sonic descriptor to take a –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks for a number of rounds equal to half the caster level of the spell (rounded down, minimum 1). This only affects talents with the sonic descriptor.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Concussive Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

You must cast a conditional talent immediately before casting another talent on the same creature, eliciting a promise or warning against a behavior and binding the target to the paired talent. If you do not cast a paired talent, the conditional talent has no effect. The paired talent must be from the Alteration, Enhancement, Fate, Life, Mind, Nature, or Protection spheres and must be cast on a willing creature. If the talent’s recipient violates the oath or prohibition while the conditional talent remains in effect, the paired talent is undone as if never cast. If the talent was a healing talent, the hit point damage or condition you removed returns immediately, even if the subject has enjoyed subsequent rest or healing. Poisons, diseases, curses, restored ability damage, and negative levels removed by the paired talent return as well.

This effect recognizes the spirit of your condition and does not trigger a violation due to unintended consequences or circumstances that the subject could not predict with her current knowledge of the situation. For instance, if the prohibition prevented the subject from laying a finger on royalty, touching a disguised prince would not count as a violation if the subject did not recognize the prince, nor would touching a member of royalty while dominated.

The subject of the talent intuitively knows beforehand whether an action will cause it to lose the paired talent’s benefit.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Conditional Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

A consecrated talent is treated as a maximized talent against evil creatures and creatures with the evil subtype. Against all other creatures, this feat does not modify the spell in any way (for example, a consecrated destructive blast acts as a normal destructive blast against neutral or good creatures). This feat does not stack with Maximize Spell.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Consecrate Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

You can apply this effect only to targeted talents that are harmful to their target and do not have a range of personal; a contagious talent never spreads to someone who would benefit from being the target of the talent.

A magic skill check to dispel or remove a contagious talent that fails by 5 or more causes it to spread from the original target to the creature that attempted to remove it. The talent spreads to the new target regardless of its normal range or any special targeting requirement like a melee or ranged touch attack. The talent is treated as if you had just cast it on the new target. The new target receives a saving throw or the benefit of spell resistance (if applicable) if the talent normally allows it.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Contagious Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

A contingent talent infuses a target with a dormant healing or restorative talent that can trigger when the target needs it the most. This metamagic can be applied to only Life talents or any harmless talent that can be used to remove ability score damage, ability score drain, or a negative condition or effect (such as the Life sphere’s Restore Senses talent). When you cast a contingent talent, you must set a specific trigger that dictates under what circumstances the target is immediately subject to the spell’s effects (for instance, “When the target dies, cure + Resuscitate takes effect”). The contingent talent’s effects can remain dormant within the target for up to 10 minutes per caster level you have. A creature can be infused with only one contingent talent at a time.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Contingent Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 15,000 gp (lesser), 30,000 gp (normal), 60,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 3 sp

You can modify a talent to daze a creature damaged by it. When a creature takes damage from this spell, they become dazed for a number of rounds equal to half the caster level of the talent (minimum 1). If the talent allows a saving throw, a successful save negates the daze effect.

If the talent does not allow a save, the target can attempt a Will save to negate the daze effect. If the talent effect also causes the creature to become dazed, the duration of this metamagic effect is added to the duration of the spell.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Dazing Spell; Cost 7,500 gp (lesser), 15,000 gp (normal), 30,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

You delay the effect of a sphere ability for up to 5 rounds after you use it. You must select the amount of delay when using the effect. The area or target to be affected must be within range when the ability is used, but need not remain in your range (you or it may move) before the effect activates.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Delayed Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

Targets affected by a disruptive spell must attempt concentration checks when using talents or sphere-like abilities (DC equals the save DC of the disruptive spell plus 1/2 the caster level of the talent being cast (minimum 1)) for 1 round. Targets that avoid the talent’s effects avoid the effect of this feat or apparatus as well.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Disruptive Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

An ectoplasmic talent has full effect against incorporeal or ethereal creatures.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Ectoplasmic Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

Choose one of the following energy types when crafting this apparatus or gaining this feat: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. You may replace a talent’s normal damage with that energy type or split the talent’s damage, so that half is of that energy type and half is of its normal type. If this is found as an apparatus, not crafted, roll 1d4 to determine (in alphabetical order) which element the metamagic apparatus is attuned to. These apparatuses are usually named with their elemental affinity in front.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Elemental Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

All variable, numeric effects of an empowered talent are increased by half, including bonuses to those dice rolls. Saving throws and opposed rolls are not affected, nor are talents without random variables.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Empower Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

Any morale bonus granted by an encouraging talent is increased by 1. (Morale bonuses are usually granted by the Mind and War spheres.)

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Encouraging Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

You can alter a talent with a range of close, medium, or long to increase its range by 100%. An enlarged talent with a range of close now has a range of 50 feet + 5 feet/ level, while medium-range spells have a range of 200 feet + 20 feet/level and long-range spells have a range of 800 feet + 80 feet/level. Talents whose ranges are not defined by distance, as well as talents whose ranges are not close, medium, or long, do not benefit from this effect.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Enlarging Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

An extended talent lasts twice as long as normal. A talent with a duration of concentration, instantaneous, or permanent is not affected by this effect, but you may choose to activate this metamagic effect when spending a spell point to make a talent you are concentrating on last without concentration, rather than when you initially cast the sphere effect.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Extend Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

When a creature takes hit point damage from a fearsome talent, if that creature fails its save against the talent, it becomes shaken for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the talent’s caster level (minimum 1 round). If the talent does not allow a save, creatures harmed by it can attempt a Will save (against the same DC the talent would have if it did allow a save) to negate the shaken effect. If the talent already causes creatures to become shaken, on a failed save, add the duration of this metamagic effect to the duration of the shaken condition imposed by the talent. A fearsome talent cannot cause a creature to become frightened, even if that creature is already shaken.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Fearsome Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

The electricity, fire, or light effects of the affected talent create a flaring light that dazzles creatures that take damage from the talent. A flaring talent causes a creature that takes fire or electricity damage from the affected talent to become dazzled for a number of rounds equal 1/2 the caster the spell (minimum 1 round). A flaring metamagic effect only affects talents with a fire, light, or electricity descriptor that deal damage.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Flaring Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 0 sp

A fleeting talent’s duration becomes dismissible, if it is not already. You can dismiss your own fleeting talent as a swift action. When you dismiss a fleeting talent, its lingering aura cannot be detected by magic unless the caster succeeds at a magic skill check against a DC equal to 11 + 1/2 your caster level (minimum 1). The DC of checks to counter a fleeting spell is reduced by 2, and once active, counterspell removes a fleeting spell without a magic skill check. A fleeting talent has half its normal duration (with an extended fleeting talent, these duration adjustments cancel out). Only talents with a duration of at least 2 rounds can be made fleeting, and instantaneous or permanent talents cannot be fleeting talents. Time spent concentrating on a talent does not count against a fleeting talent’s time limit, and you may choose to activate this metamagic when spending a spell point to make a talent you are concentrating on last without concentration.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Fleeting Spell; Cost 1,250 gp (lesser), 2,500 gp (normal), 5,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

When casting a talent that affects or targets more than one creature, you can choose one target or creature within the talent’s effect. That creature’s saving throw DC to resist the talent is increased by +2. You must choose which target to focus the talent on before casting the talent.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Focusing Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

A furious talent that deals hit point damage adds the talent’s caster level to the amount of damage dealt by the talent. Talents that affect multiple targets deal the extra damage once to each target, regardless of whether the talent deals its damage all at once or in multiple hits (in the latter case, add the extra damage to the first hit against each target). In addition, a furious talent can be cast while the caster is enraged, including during a barbarian rage or while affected by a rage talent. Even a furious talent that requires an emotion component (as required by the Emotional Casting drawback) can be cast while enraged. The caster gains a +2 circumstance bonus on concentration checks and magic skill checks related to casting a furious talent if she is enraged.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Furious Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

Anyone targeted by your spells or sphere effects, attempting a save against them, or within their area becomes shaken for 1d4+1 rounds unless they succeed at a Will saving throw using the same DC as the original spell.

This is a mind-affecting fear effect. Characters must only save against this effect once per spell or sphere effect it is applied to even if the modified spell requires additional saves.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Horrifying Imagination; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

Anyone targeted by your spells or sphere effects, attempting a save against them, or within their area becomes frightened for 1d4+1 rounds unless they succeed at a Will saving throw using the same DC as the original spell. On a successful save they instead become shaken for 1d4+1 rounds. This is a mind-affecting fear effect. Characters must only save against this effect once per spell or sphere effect it is applied to even if the modified spell requires additional saves.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Horrifying Imagination; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

An intuitive talent can be cast with no mental focus (as required by the Mental Focus drawback). Talents that do not normally require mental focus are not affected.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Intuitive Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

You may cause an instantaneous talent that affects an area to persist until the beginning of your next turn. Those already in the area suffer no additional harm, but other creatures or objects entering the area are subject to its effects. A lingering talent with a visual manifestation obscures vision, providing concealment (20% miss chance) beyond 5 feet and total concealment (50% miss chance) beyond 20 feet.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Lingering Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

A logical talent can be cast without emotion components (as required by the Emotional Casting drawback). Talents that do not require emotion components are not affected.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Logical Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 15,000 gp (lesser), 30,000 gp (normal), 60,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 3 sp

All variable, numeric effects of a talent modified by this metamagic are maximized. Saving throws and opposed rolls are not affected, nor are talents without random variables. An empowered, maximized talent gains the separate benefits of each feat: the maximum result plus half the normally rolled result.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Maximize Spell; Cost 7,500 gp (lesser), 15,000 gp (normal), 30,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 0 sp

You can alter talents that inflict damage to inflict nonlethal damage instead. Talents that inflict damage of a particular type (such as fire) inflict nonlethal damage of that same type.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Merciful Spell; Cost 1,250 gp (lesser), 2,500 gp (normal), 5,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

Whenever a creature targeted by a persistent talent or within its area succeeds at its saving throw against the talent, it must attempt another saving throw against the effect. If a creature fails this second saving throw, it suffers the full effects of the talent, as if it had failed its first saving throw. Talents that do not require a saving throw to resist or lessen the talent’s effect do not benefit from this feat.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Persistent Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

When you cast a piercing talent against a target with spell resistance, it treats the spell resistance of the target as 5 lower than its actual spell resistance.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Piercing Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 20,000 gp (lesser), 40,000 gp (normal), 80,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 4 sp

Activating this metamagic decreases the casting time of a talent by 2 steps (to a minimum of one swift action). Like all metamagic effects, a caster cannot apply Quicken Spell multiple times to the same casting.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Quicken Spell; Cost 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

You can alter a spell with a range of touch, close, or medium to increase its range to a higher range category, using the following order: touch, close, medium, and long. Unlike most metamagic effects, you may activate this metamagic multiple times for the same casting to increase its range. A reaching metamagic apparatus has 5 charges per day instead of the usual 3.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Reach Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

The frost of your cold talent clings to the target, impeding it for a short time. A rime talent causes creatures that take cold damage from the talent to become entangled for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the caster level of the talent (minimum 1). This feat only affects talent with the cold descriptor that deal damage.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Rime Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

When a creature fails a saving throw against a scarring talent, for the next 24 hours that creature takes a -2 penalty on saving throws against emotion and fear effects you create, and a -1 penalty on saving throws against other emotion and fear effects. Penalties from multiple scarring talents do not stack. This metamagic can be activated only for talents with the emotion or fear descriptor.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Scarring Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

A seeking talent’s range can bend around obstacles to reach the intended target. You can define the route yourself or unambiguously identify a target and allow the talent to determine its own path. However, the talent fails if it would have to travel farther than its maximum range to reach the identified target. A ranged attack roll made to deliver a seeking talent is not subject to cover or concealment. In order to benefit from this effect, the selected talent must have a range greater than touch and target one or more creatures, or it must require the caster to make a ranged touch attack.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Seeking Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

When casting a selective talent with an area effect and a duration of instantaneous, you can choose a number of targets in the area equal to your casting ability score modifier. These targets are excluded from the effects of your talent.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Selective Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

When you cast a talent with the darkness descriptor that affects an area, creatures in the area are entangled. If the talent allows a saving throw, a successful save negates the entangle effect. If the talent does not normally allow a save, a creature can attempt a Reflex save (DC = the talent’s DC if it had a saving throw) to negate the effect. If the talent allows spell resistance, failing to overcome a creature’s spell resistance means it is not entangled. An entangled creature remains so as long as it is in the area of the talent and for 1 round after it leaves. A creature that leaves and reenters the area must attempt a new saving throw to avoid becoming entangled. Creatures that succeed at a save to resist being entangled do not have to attempt additional saves if they stay within the darkened area. You are never impeded by the effects of your talents modified by this feat.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Shadow Grasp; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

You can modify a talent to sicken a creature damaged by the talent. When a creature takes damage from this talent, they become sickened for a number of rounds equal 1/2 the caster level of the spell (minimum 1 round). If the talent allows a saving throw, a successful save negates the sickening effect. If the talent does not allow a save, the target can attempt a Fortitude save to negate the sickening effect. If the talent effect also causes the creature to become sickened, the duration of this metamagic effect is added on to the duration of the talent. Talents that do not inflict damage do not benefit from this effect.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Sickening Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

A silent talent can be cast with no verbal components (as required by the Verbal Casting drawback). Talents without verbal components are not affected.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Silent Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater); Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

You can modify a talent to extinguish magical any non-magical light sources that the target has. The first time a creature takes damage from or fails a saving throw against a snuffing talent, any non-magical light sources it has are immediately extinguished and you can attempt to dispel any active sphere effects with the light descriptor that are affecting the target as if you had also cast the targeted version of Counterspell (as the feat). Talents that do not target creatures cannot be snuffing talents.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Snuffing Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

Any talent you cast with the light descriptor that deals damage (including the Light sphere’s Searing Light talent and any blast type in the Destruction sphere’s Light blast type group) is fortified with the cleansing energies of the sun. If the talent creates an area of light, all creatures are dazzled for as long as they remain within the light’s area. Oozes, fungal creatures, creatures from the Shadow Plane, and undead must also succeed at a Will save (normal DC for your talent) or take a –2 penalty on attack rolls, damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks for as long as they remain within the light’s area. If the talent normally dazzles or blinds affected creatures with a duration other than instantaneous or permanent, the duration of that effect is increased by a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the talent’s caster level (minimum 1 round). Saving throws to remove the effect early still apply and can bypass this increase. If the talent deals more damage against oozes, fungal creatures, creatures from the Shadow Plane, or undead with a specific vulnerability to sunlight, the talent deals 1 additional point of damage per die against such creatures. If a damaging effect does not deal damage based on dice, it instead deals 1 additional point of damage per caster level.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Solar Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

A stilled talent can be cast with no somatic components (as required by the Somatic Casting drawback). Talents without somatic components are not affected. A still metamagic apparatus does not need to be held or wielded to be used; it is activated mentally, so being carried or worn suffices.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Still Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

When casting a studied talent, designate one target affected by the spell. Attempt an appropriate Knowledge check based on that target’s creature type as you cast the talent. The DC for this check is equal to 20 + the creature’s CR based on its race and not including any class levels or templates (a creature that is defined by class levels has an effective CR of 0 for this ability). If you succeed, your studied talent ignores any energy resistance or damage reduction the target has because of its race as well as any bonuses on saving throws against the talent granted by the target’s race (such as the bonus from a dwarf’s hardy ability or a halfling’s halfling luck ability). Your studied talent does not ignore energy resistance, damage reduction, or saving throw bonuses granted by other talents and effects. If you fail the Knowledge check, the talent still has its normal effects.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Studied Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 3 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

Spells affected by this feat have a reduced manifestation. Being subjected to the effect requires a Perception check (DC 15 + 1/2 your caster level) or the target does not perceive the presence and source of the effect. For each (sensory) talent you possess, improve the Perception check DC by an additional +2 and hide sensation associated with that (sensory) talent. This has no effect on spells or sphere abilities that rely on a suppressed sensation(s) to function, but you may always forgo the +2 bonus to the Perception DC to allow the sensation of the effect to function normally.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Suppressed Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

Increase the DC of magic skill checks to counter or dispel a tenacious talent by 2. If a tenacious talent is dispelled or dismissed, it lasts for 1d4 further rounds (to a maximum of the talents normal duration) before ending (this does not occur if an antimagic field or a similar talent or effect suppresses or ends the talent’s effect without dispelling or dismissing it). The lingering auras of tenacious talents detectable with detect magic last for twice as long as usual after the talent ends.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Tenacious Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

When you cast a tenebrous talent in darkness or dim light, the spell’s effective caster level is increased by 2 and any associated save DCs are increased by 1. Any attempts at dispelling a tenebrous talent in darkness or dim light take a –2 penalty on the check. Casting a tenebrous talent in bright light is difficult, and requires a concentration check (DC 15 + the tenebrous talent’s effective caster level). Attempts to dispel a tenebrous talent in bright light gain a +4 bonus on the check. You cannot use this effect on talents with the light descriptor.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Tenebrous Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

A thanatopic talent pierces defenses and immunities that protect against death effects, negative levels, and energy drain, affecting the target as if the protective barrier did not exist. For example, you could cast a thanatopic Vampiric Strike on a target under the effects of Deathless, and the target would suffer the normal effect of the talent. Saving throws and spell resistance (if any) still apply. Undead are susceptible to talents augmented by this feat, as it retunes the negative energy to be harmful to them.

A thanatopic talent that would kill a living creature (such as by giving it negative levels equal to its Hit Dice) destroys an undead (though undead such as ghosts, liches, and vampires may reform as normal). Undead affected by thanatopic talents that give negative levels automatically succeed at their saving throws to remove negative levels after 24 hours.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Thanatopic Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

This effect only works on mind-affecting talents. A threnodic talents affects undead creatures (even mindless undead) as if they were not immune to mind-affecting effects, but has no effect on living creatures. This metamagic does not give you the effects of the Mind sphere’s Expanded Charm talent.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Threnodic Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

You can modify a talent to deafen a creature damaged by the talent. When a creature takes damage from this talent, it becomes deafened for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 the caster level of the spell (minimum 1 round). If the talent allows a saving throw, a successful save negates the deafening effect. If the talent does not allow a save, the target can attempt a Fortitude save to negate the deafening effect. If the talent effect also causes the creature to become deafened, the duration of this metamagic effect is added to the duration of the talent. Talents that do not inflict damage do not benefit from this metamagic.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Thundering Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

The impact of your force talent is strong enough to knock the target prone. If the target takes damage, fails its saving throw, or is moved by your force talent, make a trip check against the target, using your caster level plus your casting ability modifier. This does not provoke an attack of opportunity. If the check fails, the target cannot attempt to trip you or the force effect in response. This metamagic only affects talents with the force descriptor.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Toppling Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

You can use 1 dose of contact, ingested, inhaled, or injury poison as an additional material component for a talent you cast. This talent gains the poison descriptor. Select a single creature affected by the talent. If that creature fails its saving throw against the talent, it must also attempt a saving throw against the poison used as a material component. If the target fails the save against the poison, the poison takes effect immediately, ignoring any onset time.

The poison uses its save DC (rather than the save DC of the talent), but is modified by any effects that increase the talent’s DC (such as Spell Focus). This effect works only with talents whose effects can be negated by a successful Fortitude save.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Toxic Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

A traumatic talent causes lingering memories of pain and suffering in creatures harmed by it. When a creature fails a saving throw against a traumatic talent, the next time it sleeps it must succeed at a Will save with a DC equal to the original talent’s DC or be affected as if by nightmare (as the spell). Each time the target fails its save, it must save again the following night or be affected by another nightmare, though the save DC decreases by 2 each night after the first. This metamagic effect can be applied only to talents with the emotion or fear descriptor.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Traumatic Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 1 sp

Only Mind talents (or talents that also include an effect from the Mind sphere, such as some spellcrafted or dual sphere effects) that affect a single target and can be negated with a successful Will save can be trick talents. If the target fails its Will save against a trick talent, in addition to the talent’s normal effects, the target also clumsily hinders itself. Immediately attempt a special combat maneuver check (1d20 + your caster level + your Charisma bonus) to perform a dirty trick combat maneuver against the target. Any feats you have that apply to dirty trick maneuvers (such as Greater Dirty Trick) also apply to this check. This combat maneuver check never provokes attacks of opportunity.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Trick Spell; Cost 2,500 gp (lesser), 5,000 gp (normal), 10,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 10,000 gp (lesser), 20,000 gp (normal), 40,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 2 sp

An umbral talent gains the darkness descriptor. As long as the talent is in effect, the creature or object affected radiates darkness in a 10-foot radius, reducing illumination similar to the effects of the basic effect of the Dark sphere. Nonmagical sources of light, such as torches or lanterns, do not increase the light level in this area.

Magical light sources only increase the light level in an area affected by an umbral talent if they are of a higher level than the umbral talent’s caster level. This effect does not stack with itself or with any other effect that creates darkness.

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Umbral Spell; Cost 5,000 gp (lesser), 10,000 gp (normal), 20,000 gp (greater)

Slot none; Price 15,000 gp (lesser), 30,000 gp (normal), 60,000 gp (greater)
Weight 5 lbs.; Feat Cost 3 sp

You can alter a burst, emanation, or spread-shaped spell to increase its area. Any numeric measurements of the spell’s area increase by 100%. Spells that do not have an area of one of these sorts are not affected by this feat. (Cones, lines, and spheres are emanations.)

Construction Requirements
Craft Apparatus, Widen Spell; Cost 7,500 gp (lesser), 15,000 gp (normal), 30,000 gp (greater)