I have two questions. First has to do with Blindness/Deafness. I had a player pull out this spell and cast it as a 2nd level bard spell against a major boss. The boss failed the quite substantial DC for the saving throw and was permanently blinded. The fight was almost instantly over. I don't feel like designing every encounter to have a 5th level cleric on hand to use the Remove Blindness/Deafness counter-effect spell, and feel that a save or die (essentially) at that level is unbalanced. The only other blinding effect is Power Word Blind, a 7th level spell that while it doesn't have a saving throw, has an HP limit. It seems this 3rd level spell (for full-caster classes) does more than it should. Am I missing anything here?
The second question has to do with the druid spell Call Lightning. It has a duration of 1 min/level, but says the following:
"You need not call a bolt of lightning immediately; other actions, even spellcasting, can be performed first. Each round after the first you may use a standard action (concentrating on the spell) to call a bolt. You may call a total number of bolts equal to your caster level (maximum 10 bolts)."
I read this spell as you can begin to use the effect any time you like during the 1 min/level duration, and that after your first bolt, may use it again once per round per caster level. The reference to that reuse being concentration makes me believe that the spell ends if, after you call the first actual bolt, if you do not continue to use the effect every round, the spell ends. The player who used it believes he has the option to use it up to one time per caster level, but may choose to take another action instead and then return to using the effect in a subsequent turn. Which is correct?
Thanks to anyone who helps :)
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The second question has to do with the druid spell Call Lightning. It has a duration of 1 min/level, but says the following:
"You need not call a bolt of lightning immediately; other actions, even spellcasting, can be performed first. Each round after the first you may use a standard action (concentrating on the spell) to call a bolt. You may call a total number of bolts equal to your caster level (maximum 10 bolts)."
I read this spell as you can begin to use the effect any time you like during the 1 min/level duration, and that after your first bolt, may use it again once per round per caster level. The reference to that reuse being concentration makes me believe that the spell ends if, after you call the first actual bolt, if you do not continue to use the effect every round, the spell ends. The player who used it believes he has the option to use it up to one time per caster level, but may choose to take another action instead and then return to using the effect in a subsequent turn. Which is correct?
You player. He has to concentrate to calling the bolt, but he can do it at any time during the spell duration.
Nowhere the spell say that he has to maintain concentration to keep the spell operative or that he need to concentrate for consecutive rounds.