I dont know if the title is clear, but you know how you can find, say, a scroll of Ondusi's (sp) Unhinging, which opens locks "40 - 60"? Or you have a ring of firebite that will do fire damage 4 to 6 points when cast?

How does the game determine whether the ring does 4, 5, or 6 points of damage? Is it based entirely on a random dice roll? Or does any of your skill come into play? It would be awesome of, e.g., your Enchant skill made it more likely for you to see the higher magnitudes than the lower ones, but I don't know if this is the case.

as far as items, I have noticed that when I was lower lvl rings qith random enchants have been going up in magnitude so im gonna say its based off ur lvl if its random loot.

Spells with an outcome range are determined randomly.

Note that there is a small bug in the calculation, so unless you have the Morrowind Code Patch to fix it, you will never actually get the highest possible number if there's a difference between min and max. For example: Restore Health on Self, 2-6 points will only give you a random chance of 2-5 points of healing. A spell with 3-3 would always give you 3.

Yep, but on high magnitude items it hardly matters. There's actually a way to exploit this little bug, detailed http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Enchant#Constant_Effect_Tip.

Which of the two values comes up is entirely random and does not depend on your skills or level.

Ah, thanks.