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<blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 1206800" data-attributes="member: 2198">Note that the doubly Empowered lightning bolt has the chance to do double the damage of the Maximized one, in addition to the chance of doing less damage.&nbsp; And you can eventually triply-Empower a 3rd level spell (or more, if you're using the ELH).&nbsp; You can't ever stack multiple Maximizes - once the spell has been maxed out, it gains no benefit from being maxed out again.That's the only real problem with allowing the stacking of metamagic feats - some feats benefit (mainly Empower, but also Extend, Widen, etc.), and some don't (Maximize, Still, etc.).&nbsp; I think to level the playing field you should to require the caster to take a metamagic feat multiple times in order to use it more than once on a single spell.&nbsp; So you'd need to fill two feat slots with Empower Spell in order to doubly-Empower a spell, three feat slots in order to triply-Empower, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spatula, post: 1206800, member: 2198"] Note that the doubly Empowered lightning bolt has the chance to do double the damage of the Maximized one, in addition to the chance of doing less damage. And you can eventually triply-Empower a 3rd level spell (or more, if you're using the ELH). You can't ever stack multiple Maximizes - once the spell has been maxed out, it gains no benefit from being maxed out again. That's the only real problem with allowing the stacking of metamagic feats - some feats benefit (mainly Empower, but also Extend, Widen, etc.), and some don't (Maximize, Still, etc.). I think to level the playing field you should to require the caster to take a metamagic feat multiple times in order to use it more than once on a single spell. So you'd need to fill two feat slots with Empower Spell in order to doubly-Empower a spell, three feat slots in order to triply-Empower, etc. [/QUOTE]

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