Sadomasochism + metamagic sapphire


Rules Questions


Part of the description for the sadomasochism spell is this:

While subject to this spell, any time you are dealt damage, your attacker must roll damage for the attack twice and take the higher roll, but the attacker must also succeed at a Will saving throw or become demoralized for 1 round. Each time you deal damage to a creature demoralized by this spell, you roll damage twice and take the higher result.

Part of the description for the metamagic sapphire gem is this:

Your spells have the maximum possible effect.
Benefit: All variable, numeric effects of a spell modified by this feat are maximized. Saving throws and opposed rolls are not affected, nor are spells without random variables.

My question is, would the gem's effect only maximize the caster's damage against their target, or would it also maximize the target's damage against the caster?

When it says that "opposed rolls are not affected", I'm not exactly sure what counts as an opposed roll. Is that any roll the opponent makes, or is that any roll that either the opponent or the caster make to oppose some sort of effect as per a saving throw?

Thanks in advance.


The damage roll isn't a direct numeric effect of the spell. The spell makes you roll damage twice and take the higher result, is doesn't have a variable numeric component itself.

1d6 damage per caster level is a variable numeric effect. Roll twice and take the highest is not.


Dave Justus wrote:

The damage roll isn't a direct numeric effect of the spell. The spell makes you roll damage twice and take the higher result, is doesn't have a variable numeric component itself.

1d6 damage per caster level is a variable numeric effect. Roll twice and take the highest is not.

Thanks!

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