School necromancy; Level cleric 7, sorcerer/wizard 7
Components V, S, M (mercury and phosphorus, plus powdered diamond and opal worth a total of 5,000 gp)
This spell functions like symbol of death, except that every creature within 60 feet of a symbol of weaknessinstead suffers crippling weakness that deals 3d6 points of Strength damage.
Unlike symbol of death, symbol of weaknesshas no hit point limit; once triggered, a symbol of weaknesssimply remains active for 10 minutes per caster level. A creature can only be affected by this symbol once.
Note: Magic traps such as symbol of weaknessare hard to detect and disable. While any character can use Perception to find a symbol, only a character with the trapfinding class feature can use Disable Device to disarm it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 32 for symbol of weakness.