[Wids]

Wids' Tip of the Year: The Negative Energy Protection spell protects against almost all Ability Drains and Ability Damage, including those from poison and disease. It's as useful against dire spiders as it is against spectres.

There. Now I'm educational too! ;)

(Back on Pirate Isles again, Serrica had Water and Evil as her Domains. She used to kill gobs of enemies--including but not limited to ettins and hill giants--with her "Death Blossom": Negative Energy Protection on herself, run right into the middle of the horde, throw multiple Negative Energy Bursts at her own feet, walk out of the killing fields with barely a scratch. If your party's clerics don't pack NEP, they should.)