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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shard O'Glase" data-source="post: 78860" data-attributes="member: 1134">Miasma as written is so broken its funny.  making it last 5 rounds a level basically means insta death for any foe that breathes of an appropriate CR for the party to face.  That it also virtually nullifies spellcasters with no save for a 4th level spell is also absurd.  Sure clerics get silence, but I can move out of the area so it only blocks a round or two of spells.  Fixes a will save to avoid it in the first place.  I'd go with will so wiz/sor at least have a chance to survive this.  Fort makes some sense since it is poison, but I'd see it as resisting the magic of getting the poison in your lungs, not resisting poison which seems more like a will save to me.  There are a lot of spells I wouldn't allow into a game form this book, this is just one of them.  But hey me as dm wont put any extra druid/cleric spells into a game, I don't like divine casters getting large boosts in power every time a supplement comes out because all of a sudden their spell seleciton greatly increases.  And I wouldn't let people sub things out for new spells, since I feel divine casters are way powerful enough without getting the ability to cherry pick their own spell lists.  I look at these new spells as spells I'd let into the game(assuming they aren't broaken like miasma) if the player researches the spell in game.</blockquote>