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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8034033" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, it is worse than quite a lot of cantrips. It has a 10' range, the save is CON (generally the easiest save, even at those levels), it does Poison damage, which lots of things are immune to (again, even at low levels), and the only thing it has going for it is the 1d12 (avg. 6.5) damage.Basically it's good if you have a creature that somehow has high AC but low CON (pretty rare, if it even exists), and isn't immune to poison, and you can get close to it reliably. One of the players in the group I play in has it, but most of the time they just use their light crossbow. The actual odds of hitting tend to be similar to landing this spell, it does 1d8+2 damage (so 6.5 average), and whilst it is subject to cover, it can also crit or you can get Advantage on the attack roll, so it tends to work out.Also as Paul says, if you have a decent melee attack of any kind, you're probably better off using that if you're that close anyway. 1d6+3 does the same average damage, anything larger does more. Longer range cantrips have much more general applicability, and almost any other damage type would be better.</blockquote>