Vanquil's Freeze Ray
(Evocation)

Range:  5 feet per level
Components:  V, S
Duration:  Instantaneous
Casting Time:  5
Area of Effect:  One creature
Saving Throw:  Special

This is an modified version of cone of cold that affects only one creature. It creates a beam of intense cold 5 feet long per wizard level, but only a tenth of an inch wide. If the target fails its saving throw versus spell, it takes 1d8 points of damage per wizard level (up to 12d8). If the target makes its saving throw, it narrowly dodges the beam, but is close enough for its body heat to dissipate the beam. Of course, that also means the beam cools down the target, causing 1 point of damage per wizard level (up to a maximum of 12).
Creatures that are cold-based (like white dragons or ice para-elementals) take no damage from this spell, but fire-based creatures (like red dragons and salamanders) take +1 point of damage per Hit Die. Undead take no damage from this spell.

