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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8418802" data-attributes="member: 508">In our 3.5 "Raiders of the Overreach" campaign tonight, we fought a Gargantuan white dragon and four 4th-level frost giant barbarians in the dragon's lair, a massive cavern carved inside a glacier.This was our first adventure after having just leveled up to 15th level.  As her 15th-level feat, our sorceress (who already had the Empower Spell metamagic feat) chose Maximize Spell.  So now she can cast a 2nd-level scorching ray spell (three rays, each doing 4d6 points of fire damage) in a 7th-level spell slot, causing maximum damage (3 x 24 = 72 fire) for the Maximize Spell feat and then half again as much (72 + 36 = 108 fire) for the Empower Spell feat.And since white dragons and frost giants are vulnerable to fire, they each take half again as much (108 + 54 = 162 fire) when the sorceress hits with all three rays (and in the case of the dragon, overcomes its spell resistance).Which she did.Repeatedly.It was a bad day for them to pick a fight with us.Johnathan</blockquote>