Talk:Empower Vs Maximize

Resistance is futile! (or is it?)
You should also address resistance, which can alter the balance so that Empower outperforms Maximize.

As a quick example, against targets with no resistance, a Maximized 2d6 spell averages 12 damage, while the Empowered counterpart - a 3d6 version - averages only 10.5 damage. The Maximized spell looks better than the Empowered spell. However, against a target with a resistance of 15 to the appropriate damage type, the Maximized spell always inflicts 0 damage, while the Empowered spell is sometimes able to beat the damage resistance. In this case, the Empowered spell looks better.

I haven't done so, but it should be fairly easy to write a program loop to compute and compare the performance for different M, N, and resistance levels.