I suppose perhaps I'm just doing too much outdoor stuff with my group -- these spells are the bane of most anything they've encountered so far. Wickedly effective.
Briar web is a 2nd-level spell, essentially the same as entangle except that if a creature fails it also takes 1d4 points of damage + 1 point per caster level -- each round that it tries to move.
The 4th- (no, now 5th-)level halfling druid in my game (funnily enough, he's called Milo) has dominated everything they've encountered using these spells. I've been thinking of reducing their areas of effect or something, maybe by as much as half.
Any thoughts? Thing is, knowing how effective these spells are, I'd *never* in good conscience be able to use them against the party. Seems to me like a pretty good reason to tone them down, wouldn't you say?