d100 Harmful Spells

Originally published June 30th 2025

Need some flavor for cause wounds spells for enemy spellcasters? Well I made a list of 100.

A ball of pink lightning floats towards victim.

A beam of pure moonlight assails victim.

A black glowing hand with terrible claws slams into victim.

A blast of locust swarm the victim.

A blast of sonic energy assails victim.

A blast of spores chokes victim.

A blast of steam cooks victim.

A chain of pure black energy latches on to victim.

A deluge of ghosts flow from the caster’s mouth.

A fiery stone descents from the sky above, striking the victim.

A ghostly dinosaur charges victim.

A ghostly warrior appears and fires arrow into victim.

A giant hand of bubbling fluid grips victim.

A great stone fists batters victim.

A hungry shark appears for a split second, biting the victim.

Air around victim superheats.

A jet of fire bursts from underneath victim.

A jet of water cuts victim.

A lasso of pure lightning wraps around victim.

A massive metal sphere is dropped onto victim.

An ectoplasmic hearts appears in the caster’s hand as they crush it.

An ethereal fishing hook pieces victim.

An ethereal form of the caster appears and strikes victim.

An eye covered wheel appears and blasts victim with lasers from the eyes.

An icicle javelin impales the victim.

An icy wolf charges and bites victim before melting.

An imposition happens directly in front of victim.

A phantasmal elephant tramples victim.

A piece of coral sprouts from the victim’s flesh.

A pool of blood forms and them creates a spear that impales victim.

A portal opens, sucking life from victim, and closing.

A sharp metal disc is flung at victim.

A sickly green yellow haze surrounds victim, before lightning shocks them.

A small storm of bronze fragments impale victim.

A spinning disc of sharpened bones is thrown at the victim.

A star filled cosmos appears around the victim, before all the stars blast into them.

A swarm of embers envelope victim.

A sword made of pure energy slashes victim.

A wave filled with parts of destroyed building rushes the victim.

A wave of bursting speleotherms barrel toward and impale victim.

Black glowing orbs appear and buffet victim.

Blast of sand strips victim’s flesh.

Blood torn out of victim.

Boils grow and burst on victim.

Caster shoots bone quills at victim.

Casters psionically constricts victim.

Caster’s eyes glow bright yellow as they looks at victim.

Caustic gas melts victim.

Crocodile bites appear on victim.

Crystals grow on victim’s bones.

Darts of energy buffet victim, turning flesh to dust.

Extremely cold air freezes victim.

Fire pours out of caster’s mouth.

Ghostly hands tear at victim’s flesh.

Green noxious smoke chokes victim.

Ground below victim turns to biting jaws.

Grubs burrow out from victim.

Hail pounds the victim.

Halo of energy surrounds victim before slamming into them.

Inky black cloud desiccates victim.

Mithril dagger appears and slams victim before disappearing.

Molten iron is flung at victim.

Mosquitoes swarm the victims

Old wounds the victim suffered reopen.

Parts of the victim’s flesh necrose.

Pure white beams shoot from caster’s eyes

Salt crystals grow on victim, desiccating them.

Scarabs emerge from victim’s flesh.

Scorpions swarm the victim, stinging them.

Searing hot manacles appear around the victim.

Skeletal hands emerge from the ground and claw at victim.

Small boulders are heaved at victim.

Small parasitic worms bore into victim’s flesh.

Tentacles appear from many portals and slam victim.

The caster grows poison spewing fangs.

The caster plays a horn and the victim is overwhelmed with pain.

The caster shoots forth a wave of lye water.

The caster speaks a baleful word in a long forgotten elven tongue.

The caster stabs a poppit, harming the victim in the same way.

The caster vomits forth a glob of pure stomach acid.

The caster’s arm turns into an expanding tentacle, choking victim.

The caster’s hand bursts forth terrible biting eels.

The caster’s tongue becomes a giant biting centipede, lashing at victim.

The caster’s tongue grows froglike and saps energy from victim.

The nearest piece of metal arcs lightning at victim.

The victim develops stigmata.

The victim disappears for a second and returns covered in cuts.

The victim is enwreathed in blinding light for a split second.

The victim’s airways fill with black ichor, choking them.

The victim’s own shadow attacks them.

Thorns lash out from the ground below victim.

Thorns wrap around the victim.

Translucent viper bites victim.

Tumors spout all over victim.

Victim bleeds from eyes.

Victim’s blood is set on fire.

Victim’s flesh vitrifies.

Victim’s hand turns into a terrible maw, biting at victim, before turning back.

Victim’s soul is partially removed from body, it remains visible for a second before returning.

Whirlwind suffocates victim.