Enchantment (Compulsion) [Evil, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Bard 3
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Area: 20-ft.-radius spread
Duration: Concentration + 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
You create an unholy, cacophonous dirge that fills the targets’ minds with the screams of the dying, the wailing of the damned, and the howling of the mad.
Creatures affected by this spell take a –4 penalty on attack rolls and Dexterity, a 50% reduction in their speed (to a minimum of 5 feet), and must make a Concentration check to cast any spell (DC equal to this spell’s DC + the level of the spell being cast).
Material Component: A pinch of ashes from a destrachan.
Source: Spell Compendium, page 66. Originally published in Complete Adventurer, page 145.