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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6688447" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Actually, the story mentioned a Scroll provided to the Mouser.  It was supposed to injure/kill Wizards that were less than the "First Order", meaning top rank.  That's why Mouser was concerned, since he wasn't.He apparently had a spell mishap in scroll use, because it targeted, and killed, the 1st order Wizards and left the enemy's lower order Wizards unharmed.  Mouser mistakenly concluded that he must in fact be a Wizard of the 1st order, since he survived.But the damage was immediate and extremely fatal.So we're trying to replicate a spell failure from a book.  The original was supposed to exclude a specific level of casters, and the mishap was to affect only that level.Question:  What will it do to the "unprepared mind", such as Sorcerers, Bards and other spontaneous casters?If they're immune then the spell is broken.In practice, if we went with the extended time ritual I suggested, or even the immediate kaboom, there's an easy way for the caster to render himself immune:  Prepare only the Destruction of the Prepared Mind spell.  Do that and the caster can take, at most, one point of damage.These are huge holes in the mechanic, and may render the spell far too broken to allow in play, other than as a bad-guy's secret weapon.  At that point it's more of a plot-device than an actual spell, and can behave any way the DM needs it to.</blockquote>