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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kilroy" data-source="post: 1934511" data-attributes="member: 5299">Metamagic that lets you boost a spells effective level far beyond what a PC could normally use can do really horrid things.  Observe the Incantatrix, lord of the Alpha Strike.  When Chained Empowered Sonic Chain Lightning goes off, there's trouble, and that's without even using any Metamagic rods or Sudden Feats.  See figure 1 - http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~kilroy/adnd/triquintachordation2.jpgWith Sudden Maximize it's just a flat 607 points of damage to each of 16 targets, if your DM doesn't know how to stack metamagic and insists on doing it wrong.  (Who am I to complain...)  Not bad for a 7th level spell.I made a guest DM in a silly 16th level game cry when my sorc/Incantatrix and another wizard teamed up with Chain Polymorph Any Object (Grizzly Mastodons) and a held Twin Animal Growth.  We started raining 20' elephants on the battle mat and nearly covered it.  Nearly three million pounds of instant trampling mastodon, thanks to the miracles of abused metamagic.  Even in this game, Sudden metamagic was banned as too broken, or we could have had twice that and then some, with only one caster.I'd never do that in a serious game, but plan Fluffy Armageddon was pretty much the best thing ever.  96d8+480 trample, and the DM even let us get away with it after he stopped crying.</blockquote>