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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gdmcbride" data-source="post: 5760056" data-attributes="member: 49338">The Rules-As-Written answer is straightforward enough. Yes, if you’ve got the metamagic feat, the appropriate spell and the spell slot, your pyromaniac fire cleric can use a 5th level domain slot to store an empowered fireball instead of fire shield.  But the heart of the question is not mechanical, my disciple of the flame unquenchable. Oh, no. This question is theological. Domain spells are a divine gift. The fire god gave you that fireball. He gave you this miracle to bring his gospel of fiery boom to the world.  And did you say thank you? Did you say, “O great and powerful fire god, thank you for showing me the truth inside the flame?” No. You just had to screw around with the deity’s pure gift of conflagrant communion and turn it into something ... else.  And metamagic can make that fireball into something really different. At least the empowered feat is only more boom. How about making the fireball ghostly (via ectoplasmic spell)? Or making the spell inflict only non-lethal damage (via merciful spell)? Or, heresy of heresies, how about turning the fireball into an iceball (via elemental spell)?  To that I would definitely say ‘no’. That, my acolyte of ashes, violates the divine will of his Perpetual Pyroclastic Preponderance. The fire god is not amused by your meddling, mortal. Now you must pass through the Seven Fires of Forgiveness. Prepare yourself for purity. And about myself: Gary McBride attended his first gaming con in 1984 as a wide-eyed lad of twelve. The experience affected him and since he has walked the way of the geek. In 1999, he received his first professional writing credit and has since gone on to work on Warhammer Fantasy, Earthdawn and other more obscure RPG entities. Now, he is the owner, lead designer, accountant and janitor for Fire Mountain Games, a publisher of Pathfinder compatible adventures. When not shackled to a computer, Gary listens to too-loud music, sips single malt scotch and travels as much as he can. And even though now husband to an astonishingly patient gamer-doctor and father to a five year old self-rescuing princess, he remains that wide-eyed lad boldly assaulting a monster haunted keep on some distant, dreamscape borderland.  Gary McBride<a href="http://www.firemountaingames.com" target="_blank">Fire Mountain Games</a></blockquote>

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