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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7373128" data-attributes="member: 6775031"><p>I agree with everyone else, about maximizing being mutually exclusive with rolling, but...</p><p></p><p>It might be a fun hypothetical scenario to explore. You cast a spell at an orc, and it rebounds to another orc, and so on until that entire orc warband is dead. An orc cast that spell at your town guard, and it rebounds around the city until everyone in the city is dead. Some genius with metamagic develops a more powerful version that kills everyone in the world who doesn't have at least 16hp. Fun stuff.</p><p></p><p>It reminds me of the old Awaken spell, from third edition, which gave a newly-awakened animal a 3d6 roll for Intelligence. Someone argued that a maximized Awaken should always give them an 18, which met with similar debate.</p><p></p><p>Currently, the game world that I'm developing involves a war between humans and the various animal species which they had maximize-Awakened to serve as soldiers, but which had secretly developed psychic powers as a result of their enhanced intelligence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7373128, member: 6775031"] I agree with everyone else, about maximizing being mutually exclusive with rolling, but... It might be a fun hypothetical scenario to explore. You cast a spell at an orc, and it rebounds to another orc, and so on until that entire orc warband is dead. An orc cast that spell at your town guard, and it rebounds around the city until everyone in the city is dead. Some genius with metamagic develops a more powerful version that kills everyone in the world who doesn't have at least 16hp. Fun stuff. It reminds me of the old Awaken spell, from third edition, which gave a newly-awakened animal a 3d6 roll for Intelligence. Someone argued that a maximized Awaken should always give them an 18, which met with similar debate. Currently, the game world that I'm developing involves a war between humans and the various animal species which they had maximize-Awakened to serve as soldiers, but which had secretly developed psychic powers as a result of their enhanced intelligence. [/QUOTE]
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