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Message: <blockquote data-quote="touc" data-source="post: 7550775" data-attributes="member: 19270">So let's compare to existing things:1. Removing effects of this spell is rough. It requires a 5th level spell (Greater Restoration) with 100gp component consumed, for one level per casting. Damage to hit points is, on the flipside, instantly restored by a variety of easy means. We're dealing with a spell that can kill if maintained and has only 3 remedies beyond the save: long rest, Greater Restoration, Potion of Vitality. 2. Xanathar's Guide spell "Sickening Radiance," a 4th level concentration spell that causes anything that enters or starts turns in the fixed 30' sphere to make a Constitution save or take damage + gain a level of exhaustion. This exhaustion goes away when the spell ends. That's huge, and intentional because Exhaustion is a bitch to get rid of and severely debilitating.If the Exhaustion sticks around after the spell ends, that's nasty as the effects quickly lead to a character being useless. Half speed, then disadvantage on all saves (pretty much guaranteeing death is on its way by round 3 if the character is optimally statted for casting). The disadvantage on skill checks renders them super vulnerable to Grapples, etc., and a horde of spell effects and so on.I'd go 3rd level if the effects fade by spell's end, and you modify the duration to 6 rounds. It's still a spell that can kill if we get to effect 6. Any spell that guarantees a kill at some point pretty nasty. And, it's really impossible to mitigate or reverse the effects in battle. How many targets will ever have access to Greater Restoration or the rare Potion in the heat of battle?I'd go 5th if the effects don't fade. This makes it an alternative to Sickening Radiance but with lasting effects that can only be cured by a spell of equal level, and even so, 1 casting per level.To me, it's really about the rarity of remedies for Exhaustion that drives the level, not comparing it to spells that do damage and so on.</blockquote>

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