Magic Missile + Intensified

[Jason Wedel]

Can you use Intensified spell on magic missile to get more missiles?

[Jeraa]

Jason Wedel wrote:

Can you use Intensified spell on magic missile to get more missiles?

Intensified increases the damage dice of a spell by 5 levels, but magic missile doesn't deal damage based on level. A missile always does 1d4+1 damage, caster level has nothing to do with it. Instead, you gain more missiles. As the damage dice of the spell never actually increases, I would have to say you can't have an Intensified Magic Missile.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

No.

Intensified Spell wrote:

Benefit: An intensified spell increases the maximum number of damage dice by 5 levels. You must actually have sufficient caster levels to surpass the maximum in order to benefit from this feat. No other variables of the spell are affected, and spells that inflict damage that is not modified by caster level are not affected by this feat.

The #missiles affects the amount of damage you do, of course, but it is still not a number of damage dice.

[Nefreet]

It's a frequently asked question.

The frequent answer is "no".

I believe it could benefit from being added to the FAQ, though, because it's a discussion that often spurns debate.

[Lady-J]

you can use it on another force damage spell battering blast though

[blahpers]

For magic missile, you'd have to use Empower Spell if you want to eke out a bit more damage.