Help with casting spells

[Dandu]

Please update your post to reflect the changes in mine.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Please update your post to reflect the changes in mine.

Better now?

 

[Dandu]

Yeah. And given the levels most games stop at, uncapped is a much smaller leap from 25 dice than from 10. If I were running a game that went to very high levels and the caster was pulling off a CL of 35 or whatever, I'd probably enforce the table on Maw of Chaos, too. Unless I was stupid enough to allow Epic Spellcasting as written / at all, of course. Then Maw of Chaos doing uncapped damage would be pretty small potatoes at that point...

The point is, the designers can and do ignore the guidelines they wrote. Which means that, as bad a decision as it would be to include a 4th level spell that "has a wider area of effect than fireball, a significantly better type of damage, includes the ability to not risk friendly fire, and has a daze effect attached", they are free to do so.

Hence, why it's included when talking about unbalanced spells.