Alinac’s Frozen Strike

As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell’s range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack’s normal effects, and Ice erupts where strike lands and explodes dealing damage to it. The explosion deals cold damage equal to your spellcasting ability modifier.

This spell’s damage increases when you reach higher levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 2d4 cold damage to the target, and the explosion increases to 2d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier. Both damage rolls increase by 1d4 at 11th level and 17th level.