Vylja's Hailstorm
(Alteration)(Weather)

Range:  30 yards
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  1 round
Casting Time:  6
Area of Effect:  15-foot cube
Saving Throw:  1/2

In the round following the casting of this spell, a hailstorm breaks loose in the area of effect, if and only if the spell is not cast in a desert or near the crater of an active volcano or the like. As long as there is a minimal amount of moisture in the air, it will be compacted to form hailstones that inflict 2d4 points of damage + 1 point per level of the priest casting the spell. All creatures are allowed saving throws versus spell for half damage. Those wearing plate mail, field plate or full plate suffer no damage at all, although their armour will be dented. If it is snowing or raining at the time of casting the amount of damage inflicted is 3d4 points of damage + 1 per level of the priest; and if it is actually hailing in the area of effect, damage is doubled to 4d4 points + 2 per level of the priest.
The priest needs his holy symbol to cast this spell, and either a small spherical piece of ice or a diamond worth at least 100 gp. The material component (not the holy symbol) is to be thrown into the air at the end of the casting time where it disappears.

