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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3146159" data-attributes="member: 1656">No it couldn't... and I'll let you reread PHB p93 and p97 to see why.The effect is variable.  A d% roll is used to determine the effect, but the effect is not numeric."32 points of damage" is a numeric effect.  "17 temporary hit points" is a numeric effect.  "6 rounds" is a numeric effect.  "3 celestial badgers" is a numeric effect.  "Bugbear" is not a numeric effect.Neither, for that matter, is the result of a Confusion or Contact Other Plane spell.  A percentile roll determines the effect, but that effect is not measurable as a number.An Maximized Teleport spell would not automatically result in a Mishap; the distinction between On Target, Off Target, Similar Area, or Mishap is not a numeric effect.  However, an off-target result would be exactly 100% of the distance off target, and a Mishap would automatically impose 10 points of damage.  The mishap reroll, however, despite producing a variable effect, does not produce a numeric effect, and the 1d20+80 is therefore not maximized.(Prismatic Spray, now, is an interesting one.  The colour of the beam that strikes an opponent is not a numeric effect.  But the table also determines whether one or two beams strike, and that is a numeric effect.  So I would say that a roll of 4, say, with an Empowered Prismatic Spray would not have us consulting the result for a 6; rather, the Con damage of the green beam would be Empowered.  A roll of 8, however, would result in three beams (2 x 1.5) striking the target.  (Any of the other rolls would result in 1 x 1.5, rounded down to 1.)  Similarly, a Maximized Prismatic Spray would result in 2 beams striking, but they would not automatically both be Violet.)(This also shows the extreme wisdom in limiting the spell to a single '8' result.  A spell with an open-ended damage capacity - say, for example, 1d6 damage, with any roll of 6 resulting in an extra d6 being added - has a variable numeric effect with an infinite maximum result, so a Maximized version would deal an infinite amount of damage.  If the roll of 8 could keep adding rays to Prismatic Spray indefinitely, a Maximized version would cause each target to be struck by an infinite number of rays...)-Hyp.</blockquote>

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