By the time they're done lveling up, the loot will be too low level
not really, if you're killing everything in a dungeon by hand, the loot you get at the same time will be still worthwhile once you leave the dungeon.
or be worth money
Baldur's gate 2. Protection from magical energy. Limited wish. One of the effects cast "horrid wilting", a very damaging spell, on everything in the entire map. The protection spell meant your party took no damage, but everything else melted. Very satisfying. Some innocent casualties.
The "some innocent casualties" tacked on the end there just fucking killed me. So you've got another to add to the list
Really, Carl. Must you insist on using that ghastly hobgoblin dynamite for everything?
Megumin approved.
The equivalent to "I cast Fireball."
Alternatively, the cleric opens a portal to the elemental plane of water and floods the dungeon. The wizard casts a few chain lightnings into the water. Wizard casts mass water breathing. Cleric empties the water at the bottom with a portal to the plane of water, but in the air.
That does take a fair bit of setup to achieve though. You can also use poisonous cloud or incendiary cloud to do similar things. I used incendiary cloud on a rather large colony of psionic spiders. They weren't particularly large, but that just meant they could make their psionic abilities more powerful by dog piling ontop of each other.
But...loot. 🥺😭
By the time they're done lveling up, the loot will be too low level
not really, if you're killing everything in a dungeon by hand, the loot you get at the same time will be still worthwhile once you leave the dungeon.
or be worth money