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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 4945704" data-attributes="member: 3424">Just to make it clearer:1. Stone rain with combat advantage deals 2d6+4 damage per attack. Since it is a recharge power, the DMG guidelines say that it ought to deal 3d6+3 damage. 2. Stone rain is also a multi-target power, but it attacks at -2 compared to the base single-attack power. This is in line with the DMG guidelines.3. Hence, when stone rain is used against three targets, it actually deals less damage than the DMG guidelines for a typical recharge power. (The fact that it is a multi-target power is already accounted for by the attack roll penalty.)4. Stone rain potentially deals more damage than the DMG guidelines for a recharge power when two or three of the attacks are made against a single target. 5. Hence, if you want to keep the potential damage for stone rain closer to the DMG guidelines, you could rule that each attack must be against a different target, or you could rule that each additional successful attack against a single target deals +1d6 damage (instead of 1d6+4, or 2d6+4 with combat advantage).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 4945704, member: 3424"] Just to make it clearer: 1. [I]Stone rain[/I] with combat advantage deals 2d6+4 damage per attack. Since it is a recharge power, the DMG guidelines say that it ought to deal 3d6+3 damage. 2. [I]Stone rain[/I] is also a multi-target power, but it attacks at -2 compared to the base single-attack power. This is in line with the DMG guidelines. 3. Hence, when [I]stone rain[/I] is used against three targets, it actually deals less damage than the DMG guidelines for a typical recharge power. (The fact that it is a multi-target power is already accounted for by the attack roll penalty.) 4. [I]Stone rain[/I] potentially deals more damage than the DMG guidelines for a recharge power when two or three of the attacks are made against a single target. 5. Hence, if you want to keep the potential damage for [I]stone rain[/I] closer to the DMG guidelines, you could rule that each attack must be against a different target, or you could rule that each additional successful attack against a single target deals +1d6 damage (instead of 1d6+4, or 2d6+4 with combat advantage). [/QUOTE]

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