Empowered Plague Storm

[Dogfax]

Hi Folks,
Can you help me on the affect, if any, that empowering Plague Storm would have? The disease penalties are mentioned as damage but I am unsure if the spell causes this, or the spell causes the disease, which then causes this damage and hence would not be empowered
Thanks in Advance

[Diego Rossi]

Quote:

Benefit: All variable, numeric effects of an empowered spell are increased by half including bonuses to those dice rolls.

Quote:

You create a hideous gray cloud, similar to fog cloud, that occasionally crackles with foul-smelling bolts of sickly green lightning. Creatures in the area must save or contract one of the following diseases: blinding sickness, bubonic plague, cackle fever, demon fever, devil chills, filth fever, leprosy, mindfire, red ache, shakes, or slimy doom (the disease is chosen by you when you cast the spell and applies to all creatures that fail the save). The disease is contracted immediately (the onset period does not apply) and is an instantaneous effect. Use the disease’s listed frequency to determine further effects, but the disease’s save DC increases by +2. For more information see the diseases section.

Empower spell doesn't affect the damage of the spell, it affects the numeric effects of the spell. Plague Storm has no numeric effect, so empower spell doesn't affect it at all.

[Dogfax]

ok, so even though the disease has the numeric effects, the empowered only covers the wording of the spell itself. Makes sense, even if I was hoping it worked the other way .

Thanks for the quick reply