Fiery Spell Feat question

[j_spencer93]

ok so for my maximize empowered fiery fireball...would that be +10 fire damage or + 15 fire damage?

[Chronos]

Only +10 (assuming your caster level is at least 10). Empower doesn't increase the number of dice: An empowered fireball at CL 10 isn't 15d6, it's (10d6)*(1.5). That is, you don't roll 15 dice; you roll 10 dice and then multiply. It has to work this way, because otherwise odd caster levels don't make sense: You can't roll half a die.

[j_spencer93]

true. so explain empowered maximized please. maybe i misunderstood something, so it would be 10d6 (max damage for spell) + 1.5 of the maximized damage or go ahead and reroll 10d6 again and *1.5 then? and fiery is +1 per die so +10

[Jeraa]

true. so explain empowered maximized please. maybe i misunderstood something

Roll the dice like normal, and add half of that amount to the damage of a maximized fireball. Just like it says to do in the Maximize Spell feat.


An empowered, maximized spell gains the separate benefits of each feat: the maximum result plus one-half the normally rolled result.

So a caster level 10 empowered maximized fireball does 60 damage, plus 1/2 of 10d6.

[j_spencer93]

ah ok i was making it more complicated then i should have lol.