Parching Touch

(Sandstorm, DnD 3.5)

Necromancy

Level: ; Sorcerer/Wizard 1; , Thirst 1
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Living creature or creatures touched (up to one/level)
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial; see text
Spell Resistance: Yes

Your hand glows with a dull, ruby light, and your touch drains moisture from the body of a living creature, dealing 1d6 points of dessication damage.
A plant or elemental of the water subtype instead takes 1d8 points of dessication damage.
A touched creature also takes 1 point of Constitution damage and is dehydrated unless it makes a successful Fortitude saving throw.
You can use this melee touch attack up to once per caster level.