Freezing Fog Spell

[Garnfellow]

Wow, just saw this 5th level spell destroy a bunch of fire giants.

My player was using this as written from (I think) Complete Arcane. Was this spell republished in the Spell Compendium, and were any changes made to it? I saw in another thread someone described it as a 6th level spell.

 

[lukelightning]

Remember that the freezing fog did more damage vs. the fire giants because of their vulnerability.

 

[Victim]

Yeah, Spell Compendium ups Freezing Fog to 6th level, which brings it more in line with Acid Fog. It's still pretty devastating though.

 

[Garnfellow]

Remember that the freezing fog did more damage vs. the fire giants because of their vulnerability.

The damage was more annoying than anything -- it was the immobility that was the real pain in the butt. The giants couldn't use their melee attacks, and they couldn't get away from the maximized, cold-substituted fireballs that rained down on the freezing fog's area of effect.

I really didn't think the spell was broken at 5th level, just used extremely well by a very clever player. I was more curious to see if there was errata or anything on it. But changing the level to 6th is a pretty big change. Any revisions to the actual spell mechanics?

 

[Warmage-in-Onley]

Spell mechanics are identical - but I don't think it's worth a 6th level slot. For those creatures that are somewhat movement deprived (limited to ground movement) the best counter is to crawl out - standing to move is entirely counterproductive (waste of move action - to incur a Reflex save - and move no faster than crawling!). Question is - do crawling creatures have to make the Balance checks? Or are they predicated on standing? As written it appears to be the latter - and the giants will be out of the fog in 6 move actions (3 rounds) at most, including standing after exiting - really no better than Solid Fog - a 4th level spell! Poorly written spell IMHO.