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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DungeonMaster" data-source="post: 2045555" data-attributes="member: 27431"> Absolute worst I've ever seen:   3.5 cleric with a penchant for caster level increase and holy word, blasphemy and company. This is the most broken and poorly designed spell in the history of D&D. Just up your caster level and you can kill roomfuls of titans, balors and pitfiends with a standard action (or a free action if you use a metamagic rod of quicken or divine metamagic).Try this: 17 cleric/ 3 heirophant spell power + orange ioun stone + prayer bead of karma + ankh of ascension + death knell's spell + create magic tatoo + divine spell power feat.That's a caster level of 20+3+1+1+4+4+1+4= 39. Everything with less than 29 hit dice dies without save or SR unless their SR is 40+. Throw in some spell penetration and you make that check 44+.  In a huge radius. That can be made bigger with a core metamagic rod of widen. All dead. *poof*. Second wing of the infernal armies. *poof*. All dead. No rolls. Entire groups of NPCs several levels higher than the PC. *poof*. All dead.  3.5 wizard or cleric with "shivering touch". Way more deadly than 3rd edition harm ever was. Starting at 5th level to boot. Paralyzes your great wyrm on average in one shot. 3.5 Hulking hurler. Nothing in D&D has ever done enough damage to destroy planets. Until now. Raises the bar on poor math skills in design.</blockquote>