### Lightning strike (Evocation) **Level:** 2 **Components:** V,S,M **Range:** 10 yds. + 1 yd./lvl. **Casting Time:** 2 segments **Duration:** Instant. **Saving Throw:** 1/2 **Area of Effect:** 1 or 2 creatures This spell causes a small bolt of lightning 1" -wide to shoot forth from the caster's outstretched fingertip, striking the indicated target for 1d6 points of damage for every two levels of the caster (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, etc., to a maximum of 5d6 at 9th level), with the target creature receiving a save for one-half damage. The bolt may be forked as a normal [[Lightning Bolt]] , striking two targets who are within 10' of each other for the full effect. The lightning strike is not powerful enough to cause structural damage to any building or wooden craft, as a lightning bolt does. The spell is otherwise the same as the third level spell [[Lightning Bolt]] (q.v.) except that the strike will not rebound off solid materials such as stone walls. Notes: Very rare spell. Known to be in the Blue Book of Du'Morde, Vol. I. (Updated from DRAGON Magazine.)