Blood Money - Strength Damage?

[Mapleswitch]

The spell Blood Money says:
You cast blood money just before casting another spell. As part of this spell's casting, you must cut one of your hands, releasing a stream of blood that causes you to take 1d6 points of damage. When you cast another spell in that same round, your blood transforms into one material component of your choice required by that second spell. Even valuable components worth more than 1 gp can be created, but creating such material components requires an additional cost of

1 point of Strength damage, plus a further point of damage

for every full 500 gp of the component's value (so a component worth 500–999 gp costs a total of 2 points, 1,000–1,500 costs 3, etc.). You cannot create magic items with blood money.

Is this further point of damage - strength damage? If not, was it intended to be strength damage?

[Tinalles]

Yes, it's strength damage. Consider how the example states it:

500-999 = 2 points
1,000-1500 = 3 points

If the first part of the sentence were referring to two different types of damage, then the example would have had to specify:

500-999 = 1 Strength + 1 hit point
1,000-1500 = 1 Strength + 2 hit points

The fact that the example says only "2 points" and "3 points" indicates that the points are of a single type; and Strength damage is explicitly specified as that type early in the sentence. Ergo, it's all Strength damage.

Also interpreting it the other way would make an already powerful spell absurdly overpowered.