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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 2225185" data-attributes="member: 27957">It does seem to be rather high on the power scale.  As are most of the spells in the Complete series books, actually.  Compare the Vigor spells in CD to the Cure series.Personally, I emphasise the optional nature of those books.  Spells in the PHB are widely availble, anything else is rare and requires special circumstances to aquire.  That way the player has to ask about any new spell they want to bring in so it can get looked over closely, and easily turned down if judged not something the DM wants to deal with.It might be simpler just to ban that spell.  A Flame Strike does CLd6 damage, maxed at 15d6.  This does 4-24d6 damage, average of 14d6 regardless of CL, to a huge creature.  Even without the penalties that's too damned good for a 5th level spell.</blockquote>