Vanquil's Snowball
(Enchantment, Evocation)

Range:  25 yards per level
Components:  V, S
Duration:  Instantaneous
Casting Time:  1
Area of Effect:  One creature
Saving Throw:  Special

This spell functions like improved version of Snilloc's snowball (although developed without knowledge of Snilloc or his spells). When cast, it creates a blue-white snowball in the wizard's hand, which is then thrown in the same round, with a chance to hit equal to the wizard's THAC0 plus 3. As it flies towards the target, the snowball expands to become a 3-foot diameter mound of snow. Neither shield nor protection from normal missiles (or similar spells) will stop the snowball, but a minor globe of invulnerability will. Immunity to cold will not prevent damage, nor being knocked over if the saving throw is failed, but will prevent the target from being unable to cast spells.
If the target makes his saving throw versus spell, he takes 1d2 points of damage per wizard level (maximum 8d2 points of damage), and cannot cast spells in that round or the next round.
If the target fails his saving throw, he takes 1d2 points of damage per wizard level (up to 8d2), is knocked down (i.e., prone), and the intense cold prevents spellcasting for the next 1d6+1 rounds (due to severe shivers and chattering teeth).
This spell was developed as an anti-spellcaster weapon, and definitely not intended for general use. It appears here only because the formula was stolen by an ungrateful apprentice of the elven mage Vanquil. Despite the fact that the apprentice was killed by Vanquil himself less than two weeks after the theft, the spell had already been circulated to several unscrupulous wizards.

