Originally published June 30th 2025
Need some flavor for cause wounds spells for enemy spellcasters? Well I made a list of 100.
- 1.
A ball of pink lightning floats towards victim.
- 2.
A beam of pure moonlight assails victim.
- 3.
A black glowing hand with terrible claws slams into victim.
- 4.
A blast of locust swarm the victim.
- 5.
A blast of sonic energy assails victim.
- 6.
A blast of spores chokes victim.
- 7.
A blast of steam cooks victim.
- 8.
A chain of pure black energy latches on to victim.
- 9.
A deluge of ghosts flow from the caster’s mouth.
- 10.
A fiery stone descents from the sky above, striking the victim.
- 11.
A ghostly dinosaur charges victim.
- 12.
A ghostly warrior appears and fires arrow into victim.
- 13.
A giant hand of bubbling fluid grips victim.
- 14.
A great stone fists batters victim.
- 15.
A hungry shark appears for a split second, biting the victim.
- 16.
Air around victim superheats.
- 17.
A jet of fire bursts from underneath victim.
- 18.
A jet of water cuts victim.
- 19.
A lasso of pure lightning wraps around victim.
- 20.
A massive metal sphere is dropped onto victim.
- 21.
An ectoplasmic hearts appears in the caster’s hand as they crush it.
- 22.
An ethereal fishing hook pieces victim.
- 23.
An ethereal form of the caster appears and strikes victim.
- 24.
An eye covered wheel appears and blasts victim with lasers from the eyes.
- 25.
An icicle javelin impales the victim.
- 26.
An icy wolf charges and bites victim before melting.
- 27.
An imposition happens directly in front of victim.
- 28.
A phantasmal elephant tramples victim.
- 29.
A piece of coral sprouts from the victim’s flesh.
- 30.
A pool of blood forms and them creates a spear that impales victim.
- 31.
A portal opens, sucking life from victim, and closing.
- 32.
A sharp metal disc is flung at victim.
- 33.
A sickly green yellow haze surrounds victim, before lightning shocks them.
- 34.
A small storm of bronze fragments impale victim.
- 35.
A spinning disc of sharpened bones is thrown at the victim.
- 36.
A star filled cosmos appears around the victim, before all the stars blast into them.
- 37.
A swarm of embers envelope victim.
- 38.
A sword made of pure energy slashes victim.
- 39.
A wave filled with parts of destroyed building rushes the victim.
- 40.
A wave of bursting speleotherms barrel toward and impale victim.
- 41.
Black glowing orbs appear and buffet victim.
- 42.
Blast of sand strips victim’s flesh.
- 43.
Blood torn out of victim.
- 44.
Boils grow and burst on victim.
- 45.
Caster shoots bone quills at victim.
- 46.
Casters psionically constricts victim.
- 47.
Caster’s eyes glow bright yellow as they looks at victim.
- 48.
Caustic gas melts victim.
- 49.
Crocodile bites appear on victim.
- 50.
Crystals grow on victim’s bones.
- 51.
Darts of energy buffet victim, turning flesh to dust.
- 52.
Extremely cold air freezes victim.
- 53.
Fire pours out of caster’s mouth.
- 54.
Ghostly hands tear at victim’s flesh.
- 55.
Green noxious smoke chokes victim.
- 56.
Ground below victim turns to biting jaws.
- 57.
Grubs burrow out from victim.
- 58.
Hail pounds the victim.
- 59.
Halo of energy surrounds victim before slamming into them.
- 60.
Inky black cloud desiccates victim.
- 61.
Mithril dagger appears and slams victim before disappearing.
- 62.
Molten iron is flung at victim.
- 63.
Mosquitoes swarm the victims
- 64.
Old wounds the victim suffered reopen.
- 65.
Parts of the victim’s flesh necrose.
- 66.
Pure white beams shoot from caster’s eyes
- 67.
Salt crystals grow on victim, desiccating them.
- 68.
Scarabs emerge from victim’s flesh.
- 69.
Scorpions swarm the victim, stinging them.
- 70.
Searing hot manacles appear around the victim.
- 71.
Skeletal hands emerge from the ground and claw at victim.
- 72.
Small boulders are heaved at victim.
- 73.
Small parasitic worms bore into victim’s flesh.
- 74.
Tentacles appear from many portals and slam victim.
- 75.
The caster grows poison spewing fangs.
- 76.
The caster plays a horn and the victim is overwhelmed with pain.
- 77.
The caster shoots forth a wave of lye water.
- 78.
The caster speaks a baleful word in a long forgotten elven tongue.
- 79.
The caster stabs a poppit, harming the victim in the same way.
- 80.
The caster vomits forth a glob of pure stomach acid.
- 81.
The caster’s arm turns into an expanding tentacle, choking victim.
- 82.
The caster’s hand bursts forth terrible biting eels.
- 83.
The caster’s tongue becomes a giant biting centipede, lashing at victim.
- 84.
The caster’s tongue grows froglike and saps energy from victim.
- 85.
The nearest piece of metal arcs lightning at victim.
- 86.
The victim develops stigmata.
- 87.
The victim disappears for a second and returns covered in cuts.
- 88.
The victim is enwreathed in blinding light for a split second.
- 89.
The victim’s airways fill with black ichor, choking them.
- 90.
The victim’s own shadow attacks them.
- 91.
Thorns lash out from the ground below victim.
- 92.
Thorns wrap around the victim.
- 93.
Translucent viper bites victim.
- 94.
Tumors spout all over victim.
- 95.
Victim bleeds from eyes.
- 96.
Victim’s blood is set on fire.
- 97.
Victim’s flesh vitrifies.
- 98.
Victim’s hand turns into a terrible maw, biting at victim, before turning back.
- 99.
Victim’s soul is partially removed from body, it remains visible for a second before returning.
- 100.
Whirlwind suffocates victim.