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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 318891" data-attributes="member: 2011">Uhm... you only multiply the variable portion of the die, not the fixed portion.d4 has a minimum of 1, which times 1.5 results in 1.And yes, I know the example in the PHB is misleading, but the rule is:&quot;All variable, numeric effects of an empowered spell are increased by one-half.&quot;And yes, I also realize that a lot of people do not play it that way. They read the sentence &quot;An empowered spell deals half again as much damage as normal, cures half again as many hit points, affects half again as many targets, etc., as appropriate.&quot; as indicating that the feat actually affects the non-variable portion of the result.For example, Empowered D8+5 Cure Light Wounds becomes 9 to 19 points of curing. And, that is ok, if that is how you read the feat.But, there are many ways to interpret it. We have always used the strict interpretation (#1 below), however, as per my earlier post, we decided to go with yet another interpretation. So, several interpretations are:1) half variable portion of each die round down2) half variable portion of total dice round down3) half entire portion (i.e. variable plus fixed) of each die round down4) half entire portion of total dice round downBut, now that I have thought about it some more, maybe I will go with #4 which ends up really combining my #1 and #2 from my earlier post due to the +1 fixed portion on most single die spells.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 318891, member: 2011"] Uhm... you only multiply the variable portion of the die, not the fixed portion. d4 has a minimum of 1, which times 1.5 results in 1. And yes, I know the example in the PHB is misleading, but the rule is: "All variable, numeric effects of an empowered spell are increased by one-half." And yes, I also realize that a lot of people do not play it that way. They read the sentence "An empowered spell deals half again as much damage as normal, cures half again as many hit points, affects half again as many targets, etc., as appropriate." as indicating that the feat actually affects the non-variable portion of the result. For example, Empowered D8+5 Cure Light Wounds becomes 9 to 19 points of curing. And, that is ok, if that is how you read the feat. But, there are many ways to interpret it. We have always used the strict interpretation (#1 below), however, as per my earlier post, we decided to go with yet another interpretation. So, several interpretations are: 1) half variable portion of each die round down 2) half variable portion of total dice round down 3) half entire portion (i.e. variable plus fixed) of each die round down 4) half entire portion of total dice round down But, now that I have thought about it some more, maybe I will go with #4 which ends up really combining my #1 and #2 from my earlier post due to the +1 fixed portion on most single die spells. [/QUOTE]

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