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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3273536" data-attributes="member: 4910">It's legit, but supremely bad form on the part of the DM.  The spell itself (Apocalypse from the Sky, as Rystil mentioned) has some very steep casting requirements that I'm willing to be that the DM just handwaved away.First, it has a casting time of 1 full day.Second, casting the spell causes 3d6 points of Constitution damage and 4d6 points of Wisdom drain (you know, the permanant stuff) to the caster.  Even memorizing the spell deals a seperate 1d3 points of Wisdom damage plus another 1d3 points per day it remains in their memory.Third, the spell requires as a material component (not a focus, a component: it's consumed in the casting) an artifact, typically one of good that's been corrupted speciffically for the purpose of casting this spell.Fourth, the spell deals 10d6 points of fire, acid, or sonic damage (caster's choice) to everything in the spell's area - including the caster.Was any of this accounted for in your game? From the tone of your post, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it probably wasn't.  Was there any warning? Did the caster take the damage, con damage, wis damage, and wis drain all and not die or lapse into a coma from which there is no recovery?  What artifact did they use... or did they just convienantly happen to have one already on hand?</blockquote>