Creeping Frost

Version 0.30: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

Calls forth freezing cold from the walls. Any enemies of the caster standing next to those walls will be frozen and will find their movements slowed. Cold resistance will reduce damage, but not prevent the freezing effect.

Creeping Frost is a monster-only spell that inflicts significant cold damage (50% irresistible) to any enemy standing next to a wall within the caster's line of sight. It also applies the Frozen status effect, reducing movement speed.

The following enemies cast Creeping Frost:

• p Ironbound frostheart (3d19 damage)
• 9 Vv (3d30 damage)

History

• Prior to 0.30, this spell ignored cold resistance entirely.
• Creeping Frost was added in 0.27.