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Message: <blockquote data-quote="da chicken" data-source="post: 304395" data-attributes="member: 5634">To me, this spell looks like a natural extention to spike growth and spike stones, but you tried to word it like evard's black tentacles.My suggestion:Wonky crit system.  Make it a flat 20/x3.Change school from "Conjuration(Creation) [Earth]" to "Transmutation."  Because you're only allowing the spell to work on stone or earthen locations, transmutation is much more appropriate, IMO.  However, you should probably change Spell Resistance to "Yes" if you do that.Also, the wording is cumbersome.  Try:"This spell causes a number of large cone-shaped stone spikes to erupt from the ground, walls, ceiling, or other stone or earthen surface.  Each conical spike grows to a lenght of 10 feet, and is 5 feet across at the base.  The spell creates one spike per caster level. No two spikes may be more than 60 feet apart, and no two spikes may be closer than 5 feet together.  The spikes are non-magical in nature.  Each has a hardness of 8, 75 hit points [arbitrary], and has a break DC of 25 [also arbitrary]."On the round the spikes grow, each spike may be directed to strike a creature adjacent to or within the space the spike grows.  Each spike attacks with an attack bonus equal to the caster's level, and each spike deals 1d8 damage plus 2 damage per caster level.  On a successful critical hit, this damage is tripled.  In any case, a small creature can be attacked only by one spike, a medium by two, and a large creature by three.  Huge and larger creatures can be attacked by any spike which could reach them, and creatures smaller than small cannot be attacked at all."</blockquote>

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