Quickened Spell Order

[EastbySoutheast]

If a Caster in this case a wizard casts a spell can he then cast a quickened spell after it or does the quickened spell always have to be cast first?
The reason this is important is the spell i was looking at casting 'quickened' has a duration of concentration.
You can not concentrate on two spells at once so you would need to cast the non quickened spell first and then the quickened one. I was just wondering if that is possible?

[Spore]

Most swift actions are used to buff the following action. That's why they're mostly used first thing on your turn. Of course you can use a quickened spell after your standard action. Isn't that even standard practice? See if the enemy is terribly injured and still standing and fire a quickened damage spell to finish him off?

[atemu1234]

Most swift actions are used to buff the following action. That's why they're mostly used first thing on your turn. Of course you can use a quickened spell after your standard action. Isn't that even standard practice? See if the enemy is terribly injured and still standing and fire a quickened damage spell to finish him off?

Reminds me of a certain OoTS comic.

[Spore]

Reminds me of a certain OoTS comic.

Care to share? I can't remember any distinct joke in there.

[KillianHawkeye]

Care to share? I can't remember any distinct joke in there.

It wasn't a joke, just a thing that happened (when Malack first encountered Nale at the palace IIRC).

[Psyren]

Reminds me of a certain OoTS comic.

Standard followed by Swift is in fact Vaarsuvius' (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0636.html) standard (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0638.html) operating (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0652.html) procedure. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0792.html)

[Jack_Simth]

If a Caster in this case a wizard casts a spell can he then cast a quickened spell after it or does the quickened spell always have to be cast first?
The reason this is important is the spell i was looking at casting 'quickened' has a duration of concentration.
You can not concentrate on two spells at once so you would need to cast the non quickened spell first and then the quickened one. I was just wondering if that is possible?

Order's not specified. Sort of like how you can take a move action and then a standard action, or a standard action and then a move action.You can put your swift wherever, as long as it's on your turn.

[Flickerdart]

Yep, you can take them in any order - move, swift, standard, or move, standard, swift, or swift, standard, move, etc.

Sometimes it's advantageous to cast a (non-quickened but swift action, low level) spell as a decoy for anyone who readied actions to interrupt. If they don't have Spellcraft to identify the spell as a throw-away, they'll make you lose the useless spell and then you blow them up with the real one for the turn.