Sacred Magic: Level 3 Spell List

Okay. After a sojourn in Spain, and being laid low by a nasty bug, I'm back on the case. In actual play news, rumor has it a couple of local friends are looking to get into some roleplaying, including a girlfriend who has never played before and is rarin to go. Stay tuned...

Some notes:

Animate Dead spells are always hard to balance. The 4 zombie/8 skeleton max per level is a decent compromise, letting lair-sized armies accumulate without being ridiculously strong.

There ain't no disease rules like Runequest disease rules, attacking stats directly (Yet another reason why 3E D&D can also be subtitled "Runequest Wins!").

The full writeup will have a table of suggested curses. Things like "Misses the first time in combat against any opponent," the old reliable charisma busters, "takes double damage from swords/animals/fire/etc." At this level, the black magic diseases and curses are nasty, more about vengeful NPCs than combat effective PC's. 

Protection from Disease: Your friend under carousing rules ...

1	Animate Dead	Black	30'	None	None
Animates 2 skeletons or 1 zombie per caster level. Caster may control undead equal to two castings of the spell, and have undead equal to four castings.
2	Hallow Dead	White	30'	None	Monster
Protects 1 corpse per caster level from animation or conversion to undead, and does 1d6 damage/caster level to all undead in 30' radius, save for half.
3	Curse	Black	30'	None	Mind (Wis)
Target either does 1 worse on all his or her rolls until dispelled, or some other curse approved by GM (not more powerful than other 3rd level Black magic)
4	Remove Curse	Gold	0'	None	None
Removes a supernatural curse from target
5	Fortune	White	0'	1 day	None
Target is protected from supernatural curses, does 1 better on all his or her rolls, and gets 1 reroll this day (as Prayer)
6	Protection from Disease	White	0'	1 day	None
Target is immune from contracting new diseases
7	Cure Disease	Gold	0'	None	None
Target is healed of one disease
8	Cause Disease	Black	30'	Until cured	Body (Con)
Target contracts a disease (choose random ability, lose 1d6 points/day if save fails, until dead at 0; 3 saves in a row heal disease)
9	Circle of Protection	White/[Black]	10'	1 hour	None
Unholy [holy] beings cannot cross 10' radius circle
10	Cure Serious Wounds	Gold	0'	None	None
Heals 4d8+4 damage
11	Protection from Serious Wounds	White	0'	30 min	None
Gives 4d8+4 temporary hit points (unholy sources do half damage against them)
12	Cause Serious Wounds	Black	30'	None	Body (Con)
Harms for 4d8+4 damage