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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6850839" data-attributes="member: 6787650">As Makskralc points out, because of the "simultaneous" wording in the spell's description, it is not 11d4+11+5, it is 11x(d4+1+5), which is similar to but not quite like 11d4+66. Of course you could overchannel too for a guaranteed 110 points of damage.It takes a bit of puzzling over the errata and dev tweets to work out the fact that "simultaneous" in Magic Missile's description is actually an operative (and important!) clause (which combines with the "simultaneous" language in the PHB description of why you only roll once for a Fireball which damages multiple targets simultaneously). A DM would be within his rights to make a less esoteric ruling because it is definitely not obvious upon first reading that Magic Missile and Scorching Ray are supposed to interact differently with Empowered Evocation.Really, Empowered Evocation should list Magic Missile and Scorching Ray as examples in its description and explain why they work differently.</blockquote>